building scons with default python3

[Chris Rees]

On 20 April 2013 04:48, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> What do you think of the following?
>
> This fixes issue with PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION=python3.3
>
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- Makefile    (revision 315795)
> +++ Makefile    (working copy)
> @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ PYDISTUTILS_EGGINFODIR=       ${PREFIX}/lib/scons-${PORT
>
>  PLIST_SUB+=    SCONS_VER=${PORTVERSION}
>
> +USE_PYTHON=    -2.7
> +
>  .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
>
>  .if defined (NO_INSTALL_MANPAGES)
> Index: files/patch-script__scons
> ===================================================================
> --- files/patch-script__scons   (revision 0)
> +++ files/patch-script__scons   (working copy)
> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
> +--- ./script/scons.orig        2013-04-19 23:35:11.656613793 -0400
> ++++ ./script/scons     2013-04-19 23:35:16.127614561 -0400
> +@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> +-#! /usr/bin/env python
> ++#! /usr/bin/env python2
> + #
> + # SCons - a Software Constructor
> + #
>
> Property changes on: files/patch-script__scons
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Added: fbsd:nokeywords
> ## -0,0 +1 ##
> +yes
> \ No newline at end of property
> Added: svn:eol-style
> ## -0,0 +1 ##
> +native
> \ No newline at end of property
> Added: svn:mime-type
> ## -0,0 +1 ##
> +text/plain
> \ No newline at end of property

The port is very out of date; the latest version claims to only
support Python 2.7, they are hoping to support Python 3.

What does the maintainer think?

Chris