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@@ -86,11 +86,11 @@ In this case, your options are: INSTALLATION ============ -Assuming your system satisfies the installation requirements in -the previous section, install SCons from this package by first -populating the build/scons/ directory. (For an easier way to -install SCons, without having to populate this directory, use the -scons-{version}.tar.gz or scons-{version}.zip package.) +Assuming your system satisfies the installation requirements in the +previous section, install SCons from this package by first populating +the build/scons/ subdirectory. (For an easier way to install SCons, +without having to populate this directory, use the scons-{version}.tar.gz +or scons-{version}.zip package.) If you already have an appropriate version of SCons installed on your system, populate the build/scons/ directory by running: @@ -99,21 +99,36 @@ system, populate the build/scons/ directory by running: If you don't have SCons version 0.96 or later already installed on your system, you can use SCons itself to populate the build/scons/ directory -with a little more typing: +with a little more typing. You must first set the SCONS_LIB_DIR +environment variable to the local src/engine subdirectory, and then +execute the local src/script/scons.py script to populate the build/scons/ +subdirectory. You would do this as follows on a Linux or UNIX system +(using sh or a derivative like bash or ksh): - $ SCONS_LIB_DIR=`pwd`/src/engine python src/script/scons.py build/scons + $ export SCONS_LIB_DIR=`pwd`/src/engine + $ python src/script/scons.py build/scons -Either command will populate the build/scons/ directory with the -necessary files and directory structure to use the Python-standard setup -script as follows: +Or as follows on Windows: + + C:\scons\>set SCONS_LIB_DIR=%cd%\src\engine + C:\scons\>python src/script/scons.py build/scons + +Either command will populate the build/scons/ directory with the necessary +files and directory structure to use the Python-standard setup script +as follows on Linux or UNIX: # cd build/scons # python setup.py install +And on Windows: + + C:\scons\>cd build\scons + C:\scons\build\scons>python setup.py install + If this is the first time you are installing SCons on your system, the above command will install the scons script in the default system -script directory (/usr/bin or C:\Python*\Scripts, for example) and the -build engine in an appropriate stand-alone SCons library directory +script directory (/usr/bin or C:\Python*\Scripts, for example) and +the build engine in an appropriate stand-alone SCons library directory (/usr/lib/scons or C:\Python*\scons, for example). Note that, by default, SCons does not install its library in the |