Gary: Thanks for the prompt reply. I am getting from your email that with the current scons version the tool chain specifications are doable but not easy at all. Am I right? I hope a new version with this functionality will come out soon.
--Ludmil On Sep 24, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Gary Oberbrunner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev _______________________________________________ Scons-dev mailing list [email protected] http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev
