>>>>> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bo> I know. scons lacks of a huge library of such things. I actually Bo> copied the SELECT_ARG thing from the autoconf source code. OK. So the big problem would be to make gettext fit in? >> Is there hope to avoid requiring installing SCons before compiling >> LyX from tar.gz? The python requirement itself is pretty much OK, >> since we use it elsewhere. Bo> Such a thing exists. It is called scons-local, readily Bo> downloadable with scons source. If some procedure requires Bo> ./configure. make, make install, we can fake them. I see it uses 200k when zipped, which is comparable to a configure script. So it is not too bad, but the global footprint will remain the same. JMarc
