How to set ":make" to use scons?

Question

I know there is a way to make vim run scons instead of make when I press :make.

I had an option that did this in my ~/.vimrc but I removed it a while ago and forgot what it was.

Answer 1

I had the same problem this weekend. I didn't want to type :set makeprg=scons every time I started Vim or hard-code 'makeprg' in my .vimrc, because I use make for some projects, maven for others, rake..., et cetera ...

So today I wrote a Vim plugin called Makeshift to determine what to call for :make by looking for known files (Makefile, SConstruct, pom.xml, ...) and setting 'makeprg' accordingly.

Details are on vim.org for DoR and future visitors to this question.