Re: build failure for devel/scons

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 05:35:29PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 08:09:03PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > I don't think it's ok for us to continue to have a situation where
> > builds fail with installed setuptools.   That might mean that distutils
> > packages have to build-depend on setuptools too but I'm not the least
> > bit sure I understand that correctly.
> 
> Yes, we should convert the users of distutils.mk to egg.mk.

I don't mind if it actually makes a difference, but there are enough
older Python modules around that simple don't care about setuptools at
all.

Joerg