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diff --git a/doc/user/build-install.xml b/doc/user/build-install.xml index 763c13e..547154c 100644 --- a/doc/user/build-install.xml +++ b/doc/user/build-install.xml @@ -67,29 +67,21 @@ Because &SCons; is written in Python, you must obviously have Python installed on your system - to use &SCons; + to use &SCons;. Before you try to install Python, you should check to see if Python is already available on your system by typing - <userinput>python</userinput> + <userinput>python -V</userinput> + (capital 'V') + or + <userinput>python --version</userinput> at your system's command-line prompt. - You should see something like the following - on a UNIX or Linux system that has Python installed: </para> - <!-- - Robert P.J. Day has suggested using "python -V", - but that's not supported in 1.5.2, so we're going - to leave this as is for now. - --> - <screen> - $ <userinput>python</userinput> - Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11) - [GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] on linux2 - Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. - >>> <userinput>^D</userinput> + $ <userinput>python -V</userinput> + Python 2.5.1 </screen> <para> @@ -99,25 +91,12 @@ </para> <screen> - C:\><userinput>python</userinput> - Python 2.2.2 (#34, Apr 9 2002, 19:34:33) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 - Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. - >>> <userinput>^Z</userinput> + C:\><userinput>python -V</userinput> + Python 2.5.1 </screen> <para> - The <prompt>>>></prompt> is the input prompt - for the Python interpreter. - The <userinput>^D</userinput> and <userinput>^Z</userinput> - represent the CTRL-D and CTRL-Z characters - that you will need to type to get out of the interpreter - before proceeding to installing &SCons;. - - </para> - - <para> - If Python is not installed on your system, you will see an error message stating something like "command not found" @@ -132,6 +111,17 @@ <para> + (Note that the <option>-V</option> option + was added to Python version 2.0, + so if your system only has an earlier version available + you may see an + <literal>"Unknown option: -V"</literal> + error message.) + + </para> + + <para> + The standard location for information about downloading and installing Python is <ulink url="http://www.python.org/download/">http://www.python.org/download/</ulink>. @@ -140,6 +130,16 @@ </para> + <para> + + &SCons; will work with any version of Python from 1.5.2 or later. + If you need to install Python and have a choice, + we recommend using the most recent Python 2.5 version available. + Python 2.5 has significant improvements + the help speed up the performance of &SCons;'. + + </para> + </section> <section> @@ -402,11 +402,11 @@ install the <application>scons</application> script in the default system scripts directory (<filename>/usr/local/bin</filename> or - <filename>C:\Python2.2\Scripts</filename>), + <filename>C:\Python25\Scripts</filename>), and will install the &SCons; build engine in an appropriate stand-alone library directory (<filename>/usr/local/lib/scons</filename> or - <filename>C:\Python2.2\scons</filename>). + <filename>C:\Python25\scons</filename>). Because these are system directories, you may need root (on Linux or UNIX) or Administrator (on Windows) privileges to install &SCons; like this. @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ in the <filename>/usr/lib/scons-__VERSION__</filename> or - <filename>C:\Python2.2\scons-__VERSION__</filename> + <filename>C:\Python25\scons-__VERSION__</filename> directory, for example. </para> |