On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:04:44PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > I am too new to scons to give a full solution here. Here are some of > my opinions: > > 1. The check content (md5) approach is better than autotools since > time stamp can be easily changed and may trigger unnecessary rebuilds.
Well, if the approach takes more time than unnecessary builds, one can hardly call it 'better'. > Using scons should reduce the chance of such a waste of time. Note > that one can let scons check time stamp, this should reduce starting > time a bit. > > 2. Currently, I use the default settings of scons (like copying files > to build directory) to ganrantee correct build. I will try to change > to non-copy if things go well. Like linking. 'lndir' comes to mind. I wonder, however, why copying/linking is necessary at all given that the auto* stuff can live without. Andre'
