From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luther Thompson Subject: bug#34236: scons does not run Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:42:22 -0500 Message-ID: <20190128134210.002ead1f@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52017) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1goBs7-00042h-9a for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:43:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1goBs6-0007Ac-Fr for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:43:03 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:50227) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1goBs6-0007AR-C5 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:43:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1goBs6-00033u-9M for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:43:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51899) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1goBru-0003r3-1i for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:42:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1goBrt-00074N-9c for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:42:49 -0500 Received: from mail-yb1-xb2e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::b2e]:43832) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1goBrt-0006yJ-1E for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:42:49 -0500 Received: by mail-yb1-xb2e.google.com with SMTP id e12so7105531ybn.10 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:42:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([2601:c6:cf00:1c9::9cc6]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q24sm14110785ywa.95.2019.01.28.10.42.31 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:42:31 -0800 (PST) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: 34236@debbugs.gnu.org scons refuses to run on my system. When I run it with or without a SConscript file, I get this error message: ---BEGIN--- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/gnu/store/r7nxidk4r12wa3y7gipqx58gc3dx3vp2-scons-3.0.1/bin/.scons-real", line 192, in import SCons.Script File "/gnu/store/r7nxidk4r12wa3y7gipqx58gc3dx3vp2-scons-3.0.1/lib/scons-3.0.1/SCons/__init__.py", line 43, in import SCons.compat File "/gnu/store/r7nxidk4r12wa3y7gipqx58gc3dx3vp2-scons-3.0.1/lib/scons-3.0.1/SCons/compat/__init__.py", line 105, in rename_module('profile', 'cProfile') File "/gnu/store/r7nxidk4r12wa3y7gipqx58gc3dx3vp2-scons-3.0.1/lib/scons-3.0.1/SCons/compat/__init__.py", line 84, in rename_module sys.modules[new] = imp.load_module(old, *imp.find_module(old)) File "/gnu/store/ibxxisi81v1v3y5xc3axl4x4rx6jpzw8-python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/imp.py", line 235, in load_module return load_source(name, filename, file) File "/gnu/store/ibxxisi81v1v3y5xc3axl4x4rx6jpzw8-python-3.7.0/lib/python3.7/imp.py", line 172, in load_source module = _load(spec) File "", line 696, in _load File "", line 677, in _load_unlocked File "", line 724, in exec_module File "", line 838, in get_code TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' ---END--- I have a hunch that this is caused by a missing environment variable, but I don't know where to go from there. Luther