Re: [gpsd-users] 'scons check' installs files, fails on pyserial

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:25:19 -0700
"Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I just looked at the gpsd SConstruct.  The uninstall is just a mirror
> of the install.  Since scons did not (directly) add the links, it
> does not know how to remove them.

Near as I can tell, the installation actually occurs in
SCons.Script.InstallVersionedLib. So it's an scons problem, not a gpsd
problem.

> 
> No mechanism to do arbitrary removes in there, yet.  So non-trivial
> to add them.

Not our monkeys, not out circus.

It is worth it to file a bug with the scons folks? I am neither an
scons nor a python person, so I'd probably be the wrong person to do it.

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