On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 05:28 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: [ . . . ] > Granted, I've never used this sort of feature from any buildsystem, but I > thought we were talking about something like the "configure" command in Waf. > My understanding is that it's like the "./configure" from autotool's > "./configure && make && make install", (except hopefully without needing to > check quite so much stuff or needing the user to manually run the configure > command).
Waf does indeed have a configure phase and a build phase. As long as the configuration remains unchanged after a "waf configure" and there hasn't been a "waf distclean" then you only ever need to build. SCons on the other hand runs all the configuration checks in the SConscript file on every run. I am never sure which I prefer, they both have positives and negatives. > Apperently some projects need to have their buildsystem check for the > existance of, locations of, and details about certain things on the local > system before building. So...that stuff. I would have thought this would be all projects that are distributed as source? -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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