[Scons-users] SCons popularity

Paweł Tomulik ptomulik at meil.pw.edu.pl
Fri Jun 12 14:00:54 EDT 2015


W dniu 12.06.2015 o 19:00, Russel Winder pisze:
> On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 12:32 +0200, Paweł Tomulik wrote:
>>
> […]
>> Some time ago I've started similar project:
>> https://github.com/ptomulik/scons-gnu-build/. It implements most of 
>> the
>> autotools' variables (bindir, and friends) in the sense that they may 
>> be
>> passed from command-line (and/or shell environment) to scons
>> environment. It also provides a flexible framework for defining 
>> custom
>> variables "shared" between user/os and scons environment. There are 
>> also
>> few other things such as standard autoconf tests implemented and some
>> extra checks (e.g. recognizing available compilers, compiler 
>> versions,
>> checking for compiler/linker flags availabililty). The missing part 
>> is
>> the installer  functionality (I think of specialized installers for
>> binaries, python libs, man pages, shared libraries etc.). If you're
>> interested, we could join efforts somehow?
> 
> I have a variety of bits and pieces relating to supporting
> prefix/bindir/libdir etc. processing using defaults, config files,
> environment variables, command line arguments for installing which I
> have never found time/energy to form up into a properly structured
> SCons support package.
> 
> It may be that others have something as well, perhaps better than what
> I have. In any event if there was a project for adding such extensions
> to SCons so that there was a group of people working on things, I would
> be happy to contribute.
> 
> I will check out this repository over the weekend.
> 

There also was a thread about a year ago (2014, 09 may) on scons-dev
(search for title "prefix, bindir, datadir, libdir, etc.").


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Pawel Tomulik


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