Tip of the Hat

• Add File Associations for SConstruct and SConscript and set them to pydev editor.
• Your project needs to have the pydev nature, so make a new python project and import folders from scons and your toolpath with appropriate names instead of copying anything.
• You can link files in eclipse 3.2, so do that with c:\pythonXX\scripts\scons and rename it as scons.py
• Set some breakpoints in your SConstruct or SConscript
• Fixup your project's PYTHONPATH to include the c:\pythonXX\scons-X.XX folder.
• Right-clicked on 'scons.py', Debug As ... -> Python Run

In the debug view, you can explore tasty things like env._dict which is full of your construction variables and builders, or shudder in awe as you still hit the *** maximum recursion depth reached without throwing an exception with a line number that you can jump to.