[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] glapi: Avoid argparse type argument for API XML input files.

[Jose Fonseca]

On 26/05/15 19:06, Dylan Baker wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:15:36AM +0100, Jose Fonseca wrote:
>> argparse type is a nice type saver for simple data types, but it doesn't
>> look a good fit for the input XML file:
>>
>> - Certain implementations of argparse (particularly python 2.7.3's)
>>    invoke the type constructor for the default argument even when an
>>    option is passed in the command line.  Causing `No such file or
>>    directory: 'gl_API.xml'` when the current dir is not
>>    src/mapi/glapi/gen.
>>
> The fix is fine, I'm not complaining about the changes.
>
> However,
>
> I'm running 'scons' against python 2.7.3 and it's building fine with
> your patch reverted. Is there something I'm missing about the way that
> the scons build works? The documentation says that just 'scons' is all
> that is necessary, is that not the case?

Yes, that should be enough to repro. I don't know why it doesn't.  Maybe 
your python 2.7.3's argparse was patched or something.

Jose