Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > attached is a patch to add the waf build system. Although waf is called > a meta build system, most applications that I've encountered so far (all > related to audio) have the standard build phases as the GNU build > system. > > The waf build system is embarrassingly similar to the Python build > system. Essentially, the phases are run by executing > > python waf $PHASE > > instead of > > python setup.py $PHASE > > Unlike the Python build system, however, there is a configure phase, and > not everything important happens during the install phase.
OK. Did you find it more appropriate to extend ‘gnu-build-system’ rather than ‘python-build-system’? > From adc52a74fb12943fd77c97bf75a2092e839f9024 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:39:03 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Add 'waf-build-system'. > > * guix/build-system/waf.scm, guix/build/waf-build-system.scm: New files. > * Makefile.am (MODULES): Add them. Could you add a few lines to guix.texi, under “Build Systems”? Other than that this looks good to me. Thank you, Ludo’.
