On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Ludmil T Zikatanov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I like scons model for software development, it is simple and quite powerful. 
> However, I stumbled when I tried  to write an SConstruct file that searches 
> for "C" and "Fortran" compilers in an order prescribed by me.  For example: 
> assume that  I have "icc", "gcc" and "gcc-mp-4.6" on a mac (all paths to the 
> executables are in the scons path, so no problem finding each of these 3 
> tools).
>
> Then I'd like to have scons to search for tools in the following order: check 
> for "icc", if not found, then check for "gcc-mp-4.6" and if not found then 
> fall back to "gcc" (or just go through the rest of the compilers that are 
> default in the "tool specifications" as indicated on the scons man page).
>
> Similar applies to Fortran compilers (or any other tools). I think it will be 
> good to either include example in the man pages accomplishing the above 
> "ordered search task" (if such example can be provided) or include this in 
> future versions of scons (if it appeals to you).

Hi Ludmil; this kind of thing is not easy to do with SCons today, but
we are thinking about how to make tool chain specifications more
flexible in a future version.

-- 
Gary
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