Bo Peng wrote: >> I think it would take me a couple of days to do that. No need to go >> anywhere near m4. Just using the Bourne shell. > > I guess *you* can. No offense from the asterisks, it represents my > admiration for your skills. It will take me that long to read the > boost/m4 code (100 lines?). > >> The autotools work, they work on Windows, at least with gcc, they are >> *very* powerful and they're as ugly as sin. I'll acknowledge the ugly as >> sin bit but to say they're not up to the job is ridiculous. > > If *up to the job* is all you need, you really do not need scons. > > I do not want to show off so early, but a peek at the scons system may > help you understand why I am doing this. (And, again, you are free to > ignore it and use autotools.) > > With the current preliminary patch, I can build lyx linux/qt3 with > limited autoconf capacity. I will try to adapt it to other systems, > and if I can remove the profile machinery on all test platforms, I can > announce portabability of this build system. (Abdel, no need to try > the patch on windows yet. A better version will come out soon.) > > Cheers, > > Bo
You do know about scons "Configure Contexts", right?
