Issue 2051: Support execution when installed via easy_install.

(Gottfried Ganssauge)

3 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/CHANGES.txt b/src/CHANGES.txt
index ec6ea95..3a1b8e3 100644
--- a/src/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/src/CHANGES.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ RELEASE X.X.X - XXX
 
     - Fix typos in the man page.
 
+  From Gottfried Ganssauge:
+
+    - Support execution when SCons is installed via easy_install.
+
   From Steven Knight:
 
     - Make the messages for Configure checks of compilers consistent.
diff --git a/src/script/scons.py b/src/script/scons.py
index fb4cf52..dec4222 100644
--- a/src/script/scons.py
+++ b/src/script/scons.py
@@ -160,6 +160,19 @@ else:
         # Check /usr/libfoo/scons*.
         prefs.append(libpath)
 
+    try:
+        import pkg_resources
+    except ImportError:
+        pass
+    else:
+        # when running from an egg add the egg's directory 
+        try:
+            d = pkg_resources.get_distribution('scons')
+        except pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound:
+            pass
+        else:
+            prefs.append(d.location)
+
 # Look first for 'scons-__version__' in all of our preference libs,
 # then for 'scons'.
 libs.extend(map(lambda x: os.path.join(x, scons_version), prefs))
diff --git a/src/script/sconsign.py b/src/script/sconsign.py
index c45f587..40c5daf 100644
--- a/src/script/sconsign.py
+++ b/src/script/sconsign.py
@@ -148,6 +148,19 @@ else:
         # Check /usr/libfoo/scons*.
         prefs.append(libpath)
 
+    try:
+        import pkg_resources
+    except ImportError:
+        pass
+    else:
+        # when running from an egg add the egg's directory 
+        try:
+            d = pkg_resources.get_distribution('scons')
+        except pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound:
+            pass
+        else:
+            prefs.append(d.location)
+
 # Look first for 'scons-__version__' in all of our preference libs,
 # then for 'scons'.
 libs.extend(map(lambda x: os.path.join(x, scons_version), prefs))