Hi,

I believe we'd need to deal with LLVM_ROOT as well, since the fastcomp
version needs to be in sync with emscripten's?

- Sylvain

On 10/10/2018 02:41, Sam Clegg wrote:
> TLDR: There is a field in called EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT in the config file
> which in theory can be used by external tools to find the "active"
> emscripten.   I'm proposing to remove it.
>
> ---
>
> Maintaining this field has a cost and it can get out of sync with the
> emscripten you are actually using.    Imagine you run `emcc` and if
> parses the config file and finds EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT pointing to different
> version of emscripten.
>
> The two current users of EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT that I know of are the scons support:
> https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/blob/incoming/tools/scons/site_scons/site_tools/emscripten/emscripten.py
> And ammo.js: https://github.com/kripken/ammo.js/blob/master/make.py#L17
>
> In both of these cases a better solution would be either:
> 1) looks for `emcc` in the $PATH
> 2) check for EMSCRIPTEN_ROOT in the environment.
>
> Parsing the config file is also a rather brittle solution, and
> prevents us from iterating on the config file format and how its
> parses.  It also uses python's `eval` which is nasty.
>
> Any objections to following this path?
>

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