On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 13:29 -0400, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Russel Winder <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 09:48 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote:
> > […]
> > > But it still works if you start the "bootstrap.py" from the top-level
> > > folder ("SCons_D_Tooling" in your case), right?
> >
> > I have never tried that, I am not sure what the use case would be for
> > non-SCons-itself builds as you would have to give the absolute path to
> > the SConstruct you wanted run.
> >
> 
> The main use case for that is building SCons with itself: 'python
> bootstrap.py'.

Not for developers using tip, the main use case of the command line:

        pypy /path/to/scons/bootstrap.py

is to build whatever it is they want to build. Building SCons is a
side-effect!

:-)

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