On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:28:19PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > Just from a user's point of view: Do I really have to give the full > > scons commandline or is there some kind of shortcut once the thing is > > build already. > > > > scons --implicit-deps-unchanged -f ../trunk/development/scons/SConstruct > > mode=release > > --implicit-deps-unchanged is not recommended. Best to spend this 2 seconds. > > -f ../trunk/development/scons/SConstruct can be shortened or removed > if you ln -s development/scons/SConstruct to top source directory.
So scons -f ../trunk/SConstruct remains? In that case I'd prefer alias sc='scons -f ../trunk/development/scons/SConstruct' > usually do this and build from the top source directory. scons will > build in debug or release subdirectory and will not mess up with src > in any way. > > All other options are cached, so I always do 'scons install -j4' after > the first successful run. Ok. > > is impractical, and having shell aliases for every imaginable target > > probably isn't either. > > I prefer 'scons intall', which builds lyx, tex2lyx, client and > install. Because scons only build and install changed stuff, it is > fast. You can do 'scons lyx' or 'scons tex2lyx' if you do not want to > copy debug/lyx16.exe to /usr/local/bin/lyx16.exe (my case). Well, I certainly do not want to have my stuff installed just because I happend to build it... Andre'
