[Scons-dev] SCons learning curve (Was: New symlink copy support)

2014-07-30 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:16 AM, William Deegan b...@baddogconsulting.com wrote: William, Yes that is used for VariantDir’s.. There’s also an argument to such: BuildDir(build_dir, src_dir, [duplicate]) , env.BuildDir(build_dir, src_dir, [duplicate]) Deprecated synonyms for VariantDir and

Re: [Scons-dev] Test failures with biblattex

2014-07-30 Thread Managan, Rob
Hi Bill, For test/TEX/biber_biblatex.py we get: biber returned an error, check the blg file I suspect that the installed version of biber is mismstched with the version of biblatex and errors out. I guess I need to find a way to figure out what version of biber is installed and what version

Re: [Scons-dev] SCons learning curve (Was: New symlink copy support)

2014-07-30 Thread William Deegan
Anatoly, A manpage is supposed to be the definitive list of all the API’s. If you think you can do anything substantive with a system based on a cursory read of some short documentation, I believe you are mistaken. That said a trivial build doesn’t require a more complete comprehension of

Re: [Scons-dev] Test failures with biblattex

2014-07-30 Thread William Deegan
Dirk, What OS is your fedora7 buildbot slave running. Is it still Fedora 7? -Bill On July 30, 2014 at 7:11:30 AM, Managan, Rob (manag...@llnl.gov) wrote: Hi Bill,   For test/TEX/biber_biblatex.py we get:   biber returned an error, check the blg file   I suspect that the installed version

Re: [Scons-dev] Test failures with biblattex

2014-07-30 Thread Dirk Bächle
Hi, On 30.07.2014 19:05, William Deegan wrote: Dirk, What OS is your fedora7 buildbot slave running. Is it still Fedora 7? it's running Fedora17, as the info page correctly states: http://buildbot.scons.org/buildslaves/fedora-17 . It's just the slave's name that somehow (*cough*) got

Re: [Scons-dev] Test failures with biblattex

2014-07-30 Thread Bill Deegan
Dirk, I can change the name to 17 and restart if you can update the slave on your side? -Bill On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Dirk Bächle tshor...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, On 30.07.2014 19:05, William Deegan wrote: Dirk, What OS is your fedora7 buildbot slave running. Is it still Fedora

Re: [Scons-dev] Test failures with biblattex

2014-07-30 Thread Dirk Bächle
On 30.07.2014 19:59, Bill Deegan wrote: Dirk, I can change the name to 17 and restart if you can update the slave on your side? -Bill Okay, let's do that. Do I have to change some config first, or do I restart the slave right away? Dirk ___

Re: [Scons-dev] Test failures with biblattex

2014-07-30 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 19:57 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote: it's running Fedora17, as the info page correctly states: Isn't Fedora 17 just a teensy weensy bit out of date? (given Fedora 20 is current and 21 pending?) -- Russel.

Re: [Scons-dev] Test failures with biblattex

2014-07-30 Thread Dirk Bächle
Hi Russel, On 30.07.2014 22:18, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 19:57 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote: it's running Fedora17, as the info page correctly states: Isn't Fedora 17 just a teensy weensy bit out of date? (given Fedora 20 is current and 21 pending?) yes, but my understanding

Re: [Scons-dev] New symlink copy support

2014-07-30 Thread William Blevins
I see, I missed this fact from the commit. That makes sense, but documentation needs to be simplified IMO. https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/commits/2e225b46b2ad10230ae0a11090a7a26101866989 Because I read symbolic link copying behavior in a wrong way. Provide a suggestion? I can barely