Greg, Sadly, this is the sort of response that I expected. I had never heard of SCons before running into this, and I never expect to run into it again. I must admit that I must wonder if isn’t some sort of campaign to force people to use something that the Serf developers consider a superior solution, whether other people like it or not.
As to the Windows developers, they have access to a GNU make, which I am sure would be easier to set up than Python and SCons on Windows, so I’m not very sympathetic to your argument. As I said, configure and make as the standard for most of the Apache projects that I’ve seen. I am not a big fan of configure and libtool, but I have at least learned how to manipulate them over the years to work in the odd UNIX environments that my job requires me to work in. I guess I’m just suggesting that Serf follow the same standard that the rest of the Apache projects. Mike S From: Greg Stein [mailto:gst...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 3:39 AM To: Michael Schultz <michael.schu...@microfocus.com> Cc: dev@serf.apache.org Subject: Re: Please consider dropping scons Hello, fellow Austin-ite! In the past, serf had three separate build systems: custom, autoconf, and [Windows] Make. We got rid of all of those systems, and went with a singular replacement: SCons. Yeah, it kinda sucks that HP-UX doesn't have very good support to bootstrap this build environment. But over the past fifteen years, serf has tried them all. Maintaining multiple systems was much more difficult than consolidating around SCons (and its own particularities). Switching to an autoconf-based system leaves out Windows developers, so it is kind of a non-starter. Cheers, -g On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Michael Schultz <michael.schu...@microfocus.com<mailto:michael.schu...@microfocus.com>> wrote: I have just spent the last two days trying to build serf on an HP-UX machine. I was trying to build Subversion on the machine, and everything was going along fine until I tried to build serf. Then I had to install scons, which required me to build python, which paradoxically required python to be already installed on the machine. I got around all of that but then when I returned to serf, now scons can’t locate the C compiler. I have found topics online that tell me now to set the external PATH, but they all assume that I know something about scons, which I don’t, and thus their sage advice is of no help. So, I am NOT asking for help on that. I have now exceeded my time on this side project, and must solve my problem with subversion by building the source on a separate LINUX machine where the subversion client works properly and just copying the source over to the HP-UX machine. What I am asking is that you drop scons as the build environment and switch to configure, like the rest of the Apache projects. Michael Schultz Software System Developer – Senior Principal Micro Focus 8310 N. Capital of Texas Highway Building 1, Suite 155 Austin, TX 78731, USA (P)+1 512.340.4823<tel:(512)%20340-4823> (F)+1 512.340.1331<tel:(512)%20340-1331> Fuze x124823 michael.schu...@microfocus.com<mailto:michael.schu...@microfocus.com> ________________________________
