Re: Python 3 compatability... RFH (request for help)

off topic but interesting..
https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]

I'll take a look at the tool detection logic.
My dmd is in /opt/local/bin (macports install)


On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, 2017-04-07 at 12:35 -0400, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > Russel,
> >
> > I have macports dmd installed and see the following when I run test/D
> >
> > https://pastebin.mozilla.org/9018262
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
> This looks fairly familiar :-(
>
> When SCons tool set up searches for executables, in this case dmd, it
> uses a different path to when it then tries to run a dmd job. It sent
> the string to subprocess but the executable is not found so all the
> symbols substitute to ''. SCons has perhaps too many levels of
> indirection between detection, setting up symbols and using the
> symbols.
>
> I had thought I had sorted this out for the D tests, but clearly not –
> on MacOS. I have no way of checking Windows, so I must leave the to
> others.
>
> Personally I get round this systemic problem for my projects by always
> using an execution environment with ENV=os.environ to compile D code.
> This unifies the path used for set up and for execution.
>
> I believe I have ranted about this problem in the past. Often. :-)
>
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