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 <module> import SCons.Script File "/gnu/store/r7nxidk4r12wa3y7gipqx58gc3dx3vp2-scons-3.0.1/lib/scons-3.0.1/SCons/__init__.py", line 43, in <module> import SCons.compat File "/gnu/store/r7nxidk4r12wa3y7gipqx58gc3dx3vp2-scons-3.0.1/lib/scons-3.0.1/SCons/compat/__init__.py", line 105, in <module> 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 "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 696, in _load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 677, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 724, in exec_module File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", 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