--- SConstruct	2010-03-30 21:41:39.000000000 -0600
+++ SConstruct.bak	2010-04-28 20:52:16.000000000 -0500
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   BoolVariable('GTK_LITE', 'Enable GTK2 for dialogs only', 0)
 )
 
-env = Environment(options = opts)
+env = Environment(ENV = os.environ, options = opts)
 
 # LSB_FIRST must be off for PPC to compile
 if platform.system == "ppc":
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@
   env.Append(CCFLAGS = os.environ['CFLAGS'].split())
 if os.environ.has_key('LDFLAGS'):
   env.Append(LINKFLAGS = os.environ['LDFLAGS'].split())
+  env['CPPPATH'] = Split(env['CPPPATH'])
+  env['LIBPATH'] = Split(env['LIBPATH'])
 
 print "platform: ", env['PLATFORM']
 
@@ -53,9 +55,9 @@
   env.Append(LIBS = ["rpcrt4", "comctl32", "vfw32", "winmm", "ws2_32", "comdlg32", "ole32", "gdi32", "htmlhelp"])
 else:
   conf = Configure(env)
-  if not conf.CheckLib('SDL'):
-    print 'Did not find libSDL or SDL.lib, exiting!'
-    Exit(1)
+  ###if not conf.CheckLib('SDL'):
+  ###  print 'Did not find libSDL or SDL.lib, exiting!'
+  ###  Exit(1)
   if env['GTK'] or env['GTK_LITE']:
     # Add compiler and linker flags from pkg-config
     env.ParseConfig('pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0')