Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues a écrit :
> A new build system for LTP would be really great for the reasons Cai
> mentioned. Autoconf is something that most developers are used with, but
> I personally don't like that much. There are other fairly recent build
> systems, such as waf (http://code.google.com/p/waf/) that are very light
> on dependencies, are fast and flexible. On my spare time I was working
> on a 'minimal' ltp tree, exchanging the makefiles by waf files, was
> planning to show when it would be ready for use.
> 
> That said, autoconf is less intrusive on the current workflow of most
> developers, since they are already used to it, so it might be a better
> option.
> 
> My personal preference is for waf, since with a simple 100K script at
> the top directory and waf files instead of make files we can have a
> powerful and mostly self contained build environment. But the long time
> developers know better what would be best for LTP.


I don't know Waf but I've used alternate build tools. ie. SCons proves 
to be very efficient fast and much easier than autoconf/automake.
Also, it's entirely dynamic : you don't need to re-run autoconf if you 
add a new #include in a source file.


Gilles.

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