scons problem running the tests on linux

[leftcoastguy]

I've followed the build instructions in the README file and the cpp source seems to build fine, but when the python tests try to run there is a scons error.  I've tried using scons 1.0.0 and (currently) trying scons 0.98.5.

I understand the python error (calling a string method on a list object), but I don't really see what the solution is.  I've also tried running the .py test files on their own and this leads to various other issues.  Seems like I should be able to run the tests using the scons script though!

matt@pike:~/code/lognet/jsoncpp$ ./scons.py platform=linux-gcc check
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Using platform 'linux-gcc-4.1.3'
LD_LIBRARY_PATH = :libs/linux-gcc-4.1.3
Building using PLATFORM = linux-gcc-4.1.3

scons: warning: The env.Copy() method is deprecated; use the env.Clone() method
instead.
File "/home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/SConstruct", line 193, in <module>
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
RunJSONTests("[<SCons.Node.FS.File instance at 0xb781706c>]")
scons: *** [check] Exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/scons-local-0.98.5/SCons/Taskmaster.py",
line 222, in execute
    self.targets[0].build()
  File "/home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/scons-local-0.98.5/SCons/Node/__init__.py
", line 372, in build
    apply(self.get_executor(), (self,), kw)
  File "/home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/scons-local-0.98.5/SCons/Executor.py", li
ne 145, in __call__
    return self.do_execute(target, kw)
  File "/home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/scons-local-0.98.5/SCons/Executor.py", li
ne 131, in do_execute
    status = apply(act, (self.targets, self.get_sources(), env), kw)
  File "/home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/scons-local-0.98.5/SCons/Action.py", line
468, in __call__
    stat = self.execute(target, source, env)
  File "/home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/scons-local-0.98.5/SCons/Action.py", line
846, in execute
    result = self.execfunction(target=target, source=rsources, env=env)
  File "/home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/scons-local-0.98.5/SCons/Action.py", line
991, in __call__
    return apply(self.parent.actfunc, args, kw)
  File "/home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/SConstruct", line 235, in runJSONTests_ac
tion
    return runjsontests.runAllTests( os.path.abspath(source), jsontest_path )
  File "posixpath.py", line 402, in abspath
    if not isabs(path):
  File "posixpath.py", line 49, in isabs
    return s.startswith('/')
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'startswith'
scons: building terminated because of errors.

[leftcoastguy]

OK.  In case anyone else encounters this problem... I ended up giving up on Scons and just invoking the unit tests directly.

Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to contain the path to the .so:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/libs/linux-gcc-4.1.3

invoke runjsontests.py with the path to jsontestrunner as the only argument, like so:

matt@pike:~/code/lognet/jsoncpp/test$ python runjsontests.py /home/matt/code/lognet/jsoncpp/bin/linux-gcc-4.1.3/jsontestrunner

(obviously, replace /home/matt/code/lognet with your own root)

All the test are running/passing for me now after doing the above.