[Scons-users] Is there a way to turn this warning message off?

[Gary Oberbrunner]

I agree with everyone here.  I'm trying to design a new Tool/Toolchain
infrastructure which will allow improved tool detection and use, and enable
us to fix the bogus warnings in MSVC as well as lots of other stuff.  Feel
free to discuss ideas and options on the dev list.


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 8:05 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I got mixed opinions earlier, but if DefaultEnvironment( tools = [ ] )
> resolves the issue, then it matters less.  If this doesn't work, I think
> this goes back to consistency.
>
> V/R,
> William
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, July 26, 2014 11:05:16 PM Dirk Bächle wrote:
>> > On 26.07.2014 22:52, William Blevins wrote:
>> > > As Mark has already stated, this is a consistency problem.  Why do the
>> > > C/C++ tools complain by default when none of the other tools do?
>> >
>> > Because the author(s) of the Tool chose to do so...and, in my opinion,
>> > they should be free to follow either way.
>>
>> So much for consistent behavior across platforms.
>>
>> >
>> > > It would be reasonable to give a warning if the build called the C/C++
>> > > scanner for example, but in the case above, it sounds like the tool is
>> > > never used.
>> >
>> > A Tool doesn't get used, it sets up and changes the Environment...mainly
>> > by adding Builders or tweaking environment variables. At the time a Tool
>> > gets initialized, it's not possible to decide whether a provided Builder
>> > will get used or not.
>> >
>> > >  It is not reasonable for the warning just because SCons in running on
>> > >
>> > > Windows and SCons happens to support C/C++.
>> > >
>> > > I have a usage question. Does the warning still appear in you set the
>> > > DefaultEnvironment( tools = [] )?
>> >
>> > The warning appears whenever you try to initialize the "msvs" Tool under
>> > Windows, without having a corresponding compiler installed. Setting
>> > "tools=[]" for all your environments would prevent this...
>>
>> Or not sucking in all the tools by default would do the same.
>>
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>> Mark A. Flacy
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Gary
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