Re: [Cppunit-devel] cppunit2 does not compile

[CppUnit d. m. l. <cpp...@li...>]

CppUnit development mailing list wrote:
> Hi!
>
> (somehow this message did not get through so here once again)
>
> I just wanted to build cppunit2. But there seems to be something
> missing. I tried with the build instructions in thewiki but they are
> wrong :-(
>
> With this I get:
>
> ~/src/cvs/cppunit2 $ python scons.py platform=linux-gcc
> python: can't open file 'scons.py': [Errno 2] No such file or
> directory

Did you download and unpacked scons-local package as indicated ? The error 
message seems to indicate you did not...

> So I did this:
>
> ~/src/cvs/cppunit2 $ python sconstruct platform=linux-gcc
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "sconstruct", line 9, in ?
>    options = Options()
> NameError: name 'Options' is not defined
>

This one is wrong, sconstruct is not a python executable.

> So I did:
>
>
> ~/src/cvs/cppunit2 $ scons platform=linux-gcc
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
> Building using PLATFORM = linux-gcc
>
> scons: *** No tool named 'srcdist': No module named srcdist
> File "sconstruct", line 41, in ?

Do you have the following file in your cvs tree ?
scons-tools/srcdist.py


What scons version are you using ? Here is how to get it:
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E:\prg\vc\Lib\opentest>python scons.py -v
SCons by Steven Knight et al.:
        script: v0.96.92.D002, 2006/04/11 07:39:43, by knight on roxbury
        engine: v0.96.92.D002, 2006/04/11 07:39:43, by knight on roxbury
Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 The SCons Foundation
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The directory was added a few weeks ago in CVS.

Baptiste.
>
>
> But as you can see, none of it worked :-(
>
> So  please tell me how to build cppunit2.
>
> Thanks a lot, Fabian
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Baptiste Lepilleur <bl...@us...>
CppUnit maintainer
OpenTest and CppUnit 2 developer.