From de720838053d30defcb3b5d07b76ea599b9c05ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Binkert <nate@binkert.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:38:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] SCons: Fix read_command so it can properly deal with command
 strings

---
 SConstruct | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index e65c2da39..dc3addcd8 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ def read_command(cmd, **kwargs):
     this is sorta like `cmd` in shell"""
     from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
 
+    if isinstance(cmd, str):
+        cmd = cmd.split()
+
     no_exception = 'exception' in kwargs
     exception = kwargs.pop('exception', None)
     
-- 
2.30.2