It's interesting that you got rid of the problem by downgrading to
0.96, as I've only had problems with the UnicodeDecode error in
relation to scons version.

I got the error you describe when trying to use the gcc3opt flag in SConstruct.
I have gcc.3.4.2, so I'd expect it to work but it does not.
Does the gcc3opt flag require any special libraries installed ?

Oeyvind

2007/10/31, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@gmail.com>:
> Hello.
> Debian testing 64, Csound5.07.0.tar.gz, scons engine v0.97.0d20070918.r2446
> (from Debian repository).
>
> scons -h gives me:
>
> *** Failed to compile a simple test program. The compiler is
> *** possibly not set up correctly, or is used with invalid flags.
> *** Check config.log to find out more about the error.
>
> config.log is attached.  I tried this with the previous CVS version I
> downloaded and compiled before, and I get the same response in its folder;
> it worked before when I compiled, but now it says the same thing.  Did I
> necessarily update to a crazy version of scons, or might it be something
> else?
>
> Thankye.
> -Chuckk
>
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