bug#34236: scons does not run

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Luther,

> On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 20:11:37 +0100
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Luther Thompson <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > scons refuses to run on my system. When I run it with or without a
>> > SConscript file, I get this error message:[…]  
>> 
>> This should now be fixed with commit ad34338d1.
>
> I'm still getting errors similar to before. When I use an empty
> SConscript, I get this output:
>
> ---BEGIN---
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
> scons: done reading SConscript files.
> TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str':
>   File
> "/gnu/store/z5r8ka0g4iib73pr2zvkhglclzh4azp0-scons-3.0.3/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py",
> line 1374: _exec_main(parser, values) File
> "/gnu/store/z5r8ka0g4iib73pr2zvkhglclzh4azp0-scons-3.0.3/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py",
> line 1337: _main(parser) File
> "/gnu/store/z5r8ka0g4iib73pr2zvkhglclzh4azp0-scons-3.0.3/lib/scons/SCons/Script/Main.py",
> line 1103: platform = SCons.Platform.platform_module() File
> "/gnu/store/z5r8ka0g4iib73pr2zvkhglclzh4azp0-scons-3.0.3/lib/scons/SCons/Platform/__init__.py",
> line 107: mod = imp.load_module(full_name, file, path, desc) File
> "/gnu/store/ibxxisi81v1v3y5xc3axl4x4rx6jpzw8-python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/imp.py",
> line 235: return load_source(name, filename, file) File
> "/gnu/store/ibxxisi81v1v3y5xc3axl4x4rx6jpzw8-python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/imp.py",
> line 172: module = _load(spec) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>",
> line 696: 
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677:
>     
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 724:
>     
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 838:
> ---END---
>
> If I add only the statement `Environment()` to the SConscript, I get
> this output:
>
> ---BEGIN---
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
> TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str':
>   File "/home/luther/test/SConstruct", line 1:
>     Environment()
>   File
> "/gnu/store/z5r8ka0g4iib73pr2zvkhglclzh4azp0-scons-3.0.3/lib/scons/SCons/Environment.py",
> line 939: platform = SCons.Platform.Platform() File
> "/gnu/store/z5r8ka0g4iib73pr2zvkhglclzh4azp0-scons-3.0.3/lib/scons/SCons/Platform/__init__.py",
> line 263: module = platform_module(name) File
> "/gnu/store/z5r8ka0g4iib73pr2zvkhglclzh4azp0-scons-3.0.3/lib/scons/SCons/Platform/__init__.py",
> line 107: mod = imp.load_module(full_name, file, path, desc) File
> "/gnu/store/ibxxisi81v1v3y5xc3axl4x4rx6jpzw8-python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/imp.py",
> line 235: return load_source(name, filename, file) File
> "/gnu/store/ibxxisi81v1v3y5xc3axl4x4rx6jpzw8-python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/imp.py",
> line 172: module = _load(spec) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>",
> line 696: 
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677:
>     
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 724:
>     
>   File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 838:
> ---END---
>
> When I run scons without a SConscript, I get the normal "No SConstruct
> file found" message.
>
> I've already tried rebooting.

I guess we’ll also need to patch “lib/scons/SCons/Platform/__init__.py”
in the same manner then.

Could you tell me how I should run scons to reproduce this issue?  (I
don’t know anything about scons.)

-- 
Ricardo