Re: packaging tests: tar; and an xz question

Bill Deegan <bill-cJFiu+DHMVC5azolltMz9laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.tools.scons.devel
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Arg.
Yes this is an existing problem.
Generally it may mean that the tool finding logic needs to be improved
inside SCons.
Though in this case it may mean that for some where_is()'s it may make
sense to have a list of default excluded paths..



On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 2:21 PM Mats Wichmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 09/06/2018 10:52 AM, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > bz2= test.where_is('bzip2')
>
> so that works, but doesn't work.  ;)
>
>
> where_is('bzip2') locates bzip2 from my cygwin install apparently, but
> when the Windows tar is launched, *it* doesn't find a bzip2.
>
> I think we may have some other instances of that "problem" - finding
> something (in cygwin) during the discovery step, but not having it be
> available at runtime.
>
> ideas?  do I have that wrong?
>
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