On Sep 8, 5:09 pm, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Joel B. Mohler wrote:
>
>
Hello,
>
> > Hi David,
>
> > I think this may be something in your ambient environment which
> > scons handles
> > differently than autoconf and friends.
>
> Is "ambient environment" a technical unix term? Is that the same as
> my environment?
;), but I don't see anything suspicious.
>
>
>
> > You could try replacing
> > ***
> > env = Environment()
> > *** with
> > env = Environment(ENV = os.environ)
> > ***
> > near the top of the c_lib/SConstruct file. SCons does not copy
> > environment
> > variables into it's environment. I think it is a strange design,
> > but the
> > SCons developers are quite dogmatic about it.
>
> > This fixed a build problem for Kiran with thread title "2.8.3.x build
> > problem". I'm not sure what that SConstruct looks like in 2.8.4,
> > but I
> > don't think this change made it in. I wasn't quite certain that I
> > recommended the change, but if it fixes your problem as well, I'd
> > say we
> > should put it in.
>
> It's already got that line in 2.8.4.
>
I would suggest commenting it out then. It was merged because of a
build problem on RHEL 5.
> Has anyone else actually built sage-2.8.4 from scratch on sage.math?
>
I believe William did do, I didn't try in person.
> david
Cheers,
Michael
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