Question

I have a mystery here: I’m using Ubuntu SCons (package version 1.2.0.d20100117-1). I have a directory $HOME/.scons/site_scons/, which all the documentation says should be one of the site directories searched by default. There’s a module subdirectory fpga. In my project directory, I have an SConstruct file consisting solely of:

import fpga

Here’s the oddity: When I just run scons, I get the following error:

$ scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
ImportError: No module named fpga:
  File "BLAh/foo/SConstruct", line 1:
    import fpga

If I run scons --site-dir=$HOME/.scons/site_scons, which seems like it should be the default anyway, then everything works like a charm.

An additional oddity: When I run strace scons, it never tries to stat or open $HOME/.scons — in fact the only place it looks for site_scons is ./site_scons.

Has anyone else ever seen this?

Answer 1

You’ll need to update to a later version to get ~/.scons to automatically get picked up by SCons.

Here’s the 1.2 docs, which don’t mention the ~/.scons

http://scons.org/doc/1.2.0/HTML/scons-man.html