Hi Harlan,
* Harlan Stenn wrote on Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:20:36PM CEST:
As long as we can guarantee that one can compile a shell that supports
the functionality that auto* needs I'm fine with that.
I still get to support lots of ancient (ultrix, OSF/1, etc) systems.
Hmm, according to Sven
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 13:52 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Peter Volkov Alexandrovich wrote:
The aim of scons is to replace gnu build system, but what are the weak
sides of gnu build system?
So far, scons is an exotic niche amongst other tools with almost no
relevant
* Ralf Corsepius wrote on Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:39:13PM CEST:
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 13:52 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
The drawback is that due to the use of relatively crude tools like sh,
sed, awk, and make, the GNU system is more complex, larger, and more
difficult to maintain.
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 13:52 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Peter Volkov Alexandrovich wrote:
The aim of scons is to replace gnu build system, but what are the weak
sides of gnu build system?
So far, scons is an exotic niche
As long as we can guarantee that one can compile a shell that supports
the functionality that auto* needs I'm fine with that.
I still get to support lots of ancient (ultrix, OSF/1, etc) systems.
If this shell configures with auto*, there is also a bootstrap problem.
H
Thank you Bob for your answer.
On Срд, 2005-09-14 at 13:52 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
The biggest weakness of the GNU build system (as well as one of its
major strengths) is that it makes no assumptions about the
installation environment. Rather than assuming/reqiring that certain
Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The biggest weakness of the GNU build system is that it makes no assumptions
about the installation environment.
Funny. To me it's the biggest strength. AFAIC, the biggest weaknesses
of the GNU build system are:
1/ to use something as rotten
Hello.
Yes. A bit provocative subject, but I dare to ask your opinions, guys,
about scons build system. What do you think about it? Is it worth to
change autotools?
The aim of scons is to replace gnu build system, but what are the weak
sides of gnu build system? Yes I know it's rather complex
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Peter Volkov Alexandrovich wrote:
The aim of scons is to replace gnu build system, but what are the weak
sides of gnu build system? Yes I know it's rather complex and do not use
md5sum to check for changed files but autotools is time-tested solution.
Could scons replace
