2014-08-05 20:06 GMT+02:00 Simon McVittie <simon.mcvit...@collabora.co.uk>: > In particular, Linux distributions *hate* waf. One of the reasons is: > >> Currently waf does basically same thing, you haven't to have waf >> installed to build, the 'waf' python script will require only python >> installed, as 'configure' requires bash/sh. > > ... but this results in not having the source code to the build system > you're building with in any sane form (the "compiled" waf script is a > self-unpacking binary container, containing a copy of waf); and trying > to consolidate onto fewer versions of waf within a distribution (i.e. > not the precise version that upstream used) is not something that is > supported by the authors of waf, because waf build systems that worked > fine with one version will not necessarily work with another.
Then put the Waf source into a directory of your project, instead of using the self-unpacking script. The full source with comments is around 200 kB. You can see this in action here: https://code.launchpad.net/~tweenk/inkscape/waf-build Regards, Krzysztof _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
