SERVER-41424 scons should fail early if invoked with wrong Python interpreter

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/buildscripts/scons.py b/buildscripts/scons.py
index 8c7b9448c51..5ce17b8fd2b 100755
--- a/buildscripts/scons.py
+++ b/buildscripts/scons.py
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ from __future__ import print_function
 import os
 import sys
 
+if sys.version_info != (2, 7):
+    print("This version of MongoDB can only be built with Python 2.7"
+          " you appear to be using version: %s" % sys.version)
+    sys.exit(1)
+
 SCONS_VERSION = os.environ.get('SCONS_VERSION', "2.5.0")
 
 MONGODB_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))