[Scons-users] Largest feasible SCons build system?

[Bill Deegan]

Mark,

On another note. I had a client with a similar system a while back.
The build was a combination of make, scons, perl, shell scripts, and
programs to generate code.
The dev team had to do a full build every time (2 hrs+) and could only
reliably build by submitting to central build server.

After a bit of work (months), I got full parallel builds down to 15 minutes
and no-op incremental builds down to a minute or two.
Incremental builds worked reliably.

And the engineers started to trust the build system again (yeah.. it was
that bad when I started working on it).

Note this was a multi-platform build system, and they only hired me to fix
the windows build.

Yes. You can get the whole build system in scons.

-Bill

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Mark,
>
> For one client I had it building.
> 5M+ lines of code. (mixed c, c++,fortran, QT, a number of third party
> packages)
> On decent hardware the development team was reasonably happy.
>
> -Bill
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Mark McWiggins <
> mark at pythonsoftwarewa.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm currently working on a short contract for a large company with an
>> SCons-based build system. Their system
>> has apparently grown organically for years and consists of a mix of
>> SCons, Makefiles and shell scripts and not all dependencies
>> are captured ... when I started their technique was having AlwaysBuild
>> turned on all over the place.
>>
>> Just wondering of the possibility of getting it all into SCons, at least
>> to make sure the dependencies are captured directly.
>> Can anybody tell me the largest SCons-top-to-bottom installation they
>> know about and how it performs?
>>
>> Thanks much.
>> --
>> Mark McWiggins
>> mark at pythonsoftwarewa.com
>> http://www.pythonsoftwarewa.com
>> +1 425 369 8286 (voice/text/vm)
>>
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