Fix scons-time fix

Apparently, the weird structor of the SConsTimer class is such that
the previous fix for the "makedict" method fails on older Pythons.
Just moved the "static method" outside the class to be a top-level
function, that seems to work better.

Signed-off-by: Mats Wichmann <mats@linux.com>

Author: mwichmann

CHANGES.txt

@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
     - Regularized header (copyright, licens) at top of documentation files
       using SPDX.
     - Updated introductory section of manual page.
+    - Minor cleanups in tests - drop unused "% locals()" stanzas.
 
 
 RELEASE 4.7.0 -  Sun, 17 Mar 2024 17:22:20 -0700

bin/scons-time.py

@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@ def redirect_to_file(command, log):
 def tee_to_file(command, log):
     return '%s 2>&1 | tee %s' % (command, log)
 
+def makedict(**kw):
+    return kw
 
 class SConsTimer:
     """
@@ -278,10 +280,6 @@ class SConsTimer:
     name = 'scons-time'
     name_spaces = ' ' * len(name)
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def makedict(**kw):
-        return kw
-
     default_settings = makedict(
         chdir=None,
         config_file=None,