On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:08:12PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
> >Urm... does one need to shout all the time when talking to cmake?
> >
> >Pretty much looks like a argument with a senile FORTRAN compiler.
>
> You have to agree that the following (src/support/SConscript) at least
> looks better:
>
> [...]
> target = '$LIBPATH/supports',
> source = Split('''
Optically better, indeed.
> * if you guys want a bare build system that you can build lyx faster,
> I can provide one in a few days. You will have to tweak a few
> parameters for your system.
>
> * if you want a cross-platform build system with all the current
> options and autoconf-like tests, it will take a few weeks. And I will
> most likely only work on one system and rely on others to tweak/test
> others.
>
> * if you want a working scons build; scons install etc, it will take
> longer, and may never happen. although such things can be found and
> adapted from many KDE/Gnome projects, and from NSIS.
>
> What do you think?
We need cross-platform definitely.
Andre'