From f5599ea253a79ad4c1a491b99231bfa221eccad8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bo Peng <bpeng@lyx.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:38:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Scons: print error message when scons is not called from top
 source directory or development/scons

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@16292 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
---
 development/scons/SConstruct | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/development/scons/SConstruct b/development/scons/SConstruct
index 6e8d42cbb9..89961b3478 100644
--- a/development/scons/SConstruct
+++ b/development/scons/SConstruct
@@ -42,9 +42,15 @@ if os.path.isfile('SConstruct'):
     top_src_dir = '../..'
     scons_dir = '.'
 # called as 'scons -f development/scons/SConstruct'
-else:
+elif os.path.isfile('configure.ac'):
     top_src_dir = '.'
     scons_dir = 'development/scons'
+else:
+    print "scons can only be called from top source directory, with command:"
+    print "   $ scons -f development/scons/SConstruct [other options]"
+    print "or from development/scons, with command:"
+    print "   $ scons [options]"
+    Exit(1)
 
 
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