From b05462ce3b89ba8f75a6387cd6e59e6700a9d3b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bo Peng <bpeng@lyx.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:46:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] SCons: allow linking SConstruct to lyx top source directory
 because I am tired of typing development/scons/SConstrct again and again

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@19243 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
---
 INSTALL.scons                |  3 +++
 development/scons/SConstruct | 26 +++++++++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL.scons b/INSTALL.scons
index f8b5757099..6376e2f6d0 100644
--- a/INSTALL.scons
+++ b/INSTALL.scons
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ file:
   > mkdir build
   > cd build
   > scons -f ../development/scons/SConstruct frontend=qt4 all
+If you are tired of typing development/scons/SConstruct, you can link 
+development/scons/SConstruct to the top source directory and use this
+SConstruct file.
 
 There are three types of command line options:
   * key=value are user options. They are used to tell scons which
diff --git a/development/scons/SConstruct b/development/scons/SConstruct
index c4cab67f10..18e8617c4c 100644
--- a/development/scons/SConstruct
+++ b/development/scons/SConstruct
@@ -14,6 +14,23 @@
 
 import os, sys, copy, cPickle, glob, time
 
+# determine where I am ...
+#
+from SCons.Node.FS import default_fs
+# default_fs.SConstruct_dir is where SConstruct file is located.
+scons_dir = default_fs.SConstruct_dir.path
+scons_absdir = default_fs.SConstruct_dir.abspath
+
+# if SConstruct is copied to the top source directory
+if os.path.exists(os.path.join(scons_dir, 'development', 'scons', 'scons_manifest.py')):
+    scons_dir = os.path.join(scons_dir, 'development', 'scons')
+    scons_absdir = os.path.join(scons_absdir, 'development', 'scons')
+# get the ../.. of scons_dir
+top_src_dir = os.path.split(os.path.split(scons_absdir)[0])[0]
+
+sys.path.extend([scons_absdir, os.path.join(top_src_dir, 'lib', 'doc')])
+import depend
+
 # scons_utils.py defines a few utility function
 import scons_utils as utils
 # import all file lists
@@ -34,15 +51,6 @@ if version[0] == 0 and version[1] == 96 and version[2] < 92:
     print "Scons >= 0.96.92 is required."
     Exit(1)
 
-# determine where I am ...
-#
-from SCons.Node.FS import default_fs
-# default_fs.SConstruct_dir is where SConstruct file is located.
-scons_dir = default_fs.SConstruct_dir.path
-# get the ../.. of scons_dir
-top_src_dir = os.path.split(os.path.split(default_fs.SConstruct_dir.abspath)[0])[0]
-sys.path.append(os.path.join(top_src_dir, 'lib', 'doc'))
-import depend
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------
 # Global definitions
-- 
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