On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 18:43 -0800, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > > Gallium3D currently builds on Linux userland (gcc), Windows user-space > > (MSVC, MinGW, and MinGW cross-compilers) and Windows kernel-space (MSVC > > only unfortunately). Mesa3D/Gallium3D scons build system supports all > > those combinations, *today*. > > Jose it supports building, I think Donnie's point is that its impossible > to package something that uses scons, so makes it useless to people who > downstream consume Mesa instead of developers doing builds.
Dave, It is not impossible to package something that uses scons. Several packages in debian use it: $ grep "Build-Depends: .*\<scons\>" /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Sources | wc -l 82 Concerning CFLAGS etc, one can easily modify scons to listen to it. E.g: env.Append(CFLAGS = os.environ['CFLAGS'] We can add this to mesa/gallium if it makes packager's lives easier. Scons also accepts options via command line and SCONSFLAGS. I won't even comment on KDE developers statement that Donnie quoted: it was done almost 3 years ago, and with a completely different set of requirements. I played with cmake on gallium, and it was useless. I think that all this anti-scons stuff is just FUD. Anyway, I won't push scons as the "build system to rule them all", as it is pretty unrealistic. Everybody prefers what they know best, and don't want the productivity downer of learning a new tool. It is understandable, and that's why make will remain for the years to come. I'd be glad if just more linux developers gave gallium scons build system a honest try and helped me support it on linux, besides just a couple of us in vmware. It supports: - out of tree builds (build linux x86, linux x86-64, windows, etc, from a single source tree) - worry-free implicit dependency scanning - cross platform (*truly*, and not just relying on cygwin, msys, etc to provide a fake unix environment on windows) - builtin ccache-like functionality (on all platforms) - files are rebuilt based on md5sums, not their time stamps (pretty neat when one temporarily git-checkouts something else) - autoconf like functionality (although I barely scratched the surface on this) - automatic parallel builds on multicore systems - ... Jose ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
