Ludovic Courtès wrote:
FWIW, I think Nix would have been next-to-impossible without the infrastructure brought by `configure', namely all the `--prefix' and `--XXXdir' switches, which make Autoconf-based packages easily installable anywhere on the file system.
It wouldn't be actually impossible, unionfs tricks could save the world. But everything would work much worse.
Packaging software that uses home-made build systems usually proves to be much less automatic and more painful because of this. I think CMake supports similar configure-time options. I don't know whether SCons does. If you're familiar with Automake, you might want to look at Quagmire, a promising Automake replacement which also provides `configure'-like features: http://code.google.com/p/quagmire/ .
Scons has needed features, or ldcpp expression would be much more complicated.
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