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
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