On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:50:41 +0100 (BST) James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I really really hate the build system :-( Some friends told me about scons... do you know it? http://www.scons.org/ a Software Construction tool What is SCons? SCons is an Open Source software construction tool--that is, a build tool; an improved substitute for the classic Make utility; a better way to build software. What makes SCons better? * Configuration files are Python scripts--use the power of a real programming language to solve build problems. * Reliable, automatic dependency analysis built-in for C, C++ and Fortran--no more "make depend" or "make clean" to get all of the dependencies. Dependency analysis is easily extensible through user-defined dependency Scanners for other languages or file types. * Built-in support for C, C++, Java, Fortran, Yacc, Lex, Qt and SWIG, and building TeX and LaTeX documents. Easily extensible through user-defined Builders for other languages or file types. * Built-in support for fetching source files from SCCS, RCS, CVS, BitKeeper and Perforce. * Built-in support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and past Visual Studio versions, including generation of .dsp, .dsw, .sln and .vcproj files. * Reliable detection of build changes using MD5 signatures; optional, configurable support for traditional timestamps. * Improved support for parallel builds--like make -j but keeps N jobs running simultaneously regardless of directory hierarchy. * Integrated Autoconf-like support for finding #include files, libraries, functions and typedefs. * Global view of all dependencies--no more multiple build passes or reordering targets to build everything. * Building from central repositories of source code and/or pre-built targets. * Ability to share built files in a cache to speed up multiple builds. * Designed from the ground up for cross-platform builds, and known to work on Linux, other POSIX systems (including AIX, *BSD systems, HP/UX, IRIX and Solaris), Windows NT, Mac OS X, and OS/2. Best of all: all of the features mentioned above are here today, they work, and they're stable. We ensure that today's functionality isn't broken by tomorrow's release through rigorous use of a development methodology that adds incrementally to an extensive set of regression tests: non-comment lines of test code outnumber lines of production code by more than 2 to 1. (it does exist in Debian ;) but may be a little bit out of date) Cheers, -- Arnaud Vandyck, STE fi, ULg Formateur Cellule Programmation. _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
