On Friday 15 Jul 2005 19:42, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > * it builds again some sources (and links the executables again) when > you are installing the program as root. This is very suspicious
That's true, there's almost certainly a real problem there somewhere. It should never have to run a compiler (or modify any file in the local directory, in fact) when installing as root. > * it has not support for the targets package-merge and > package-messages to keep up to date the pot/po files. This is a good reason to keep autotools working, if we haven't time to do the equivalent thing with scons. > * scons has a nice ccache like feature, that can't be used, or even > enabled/disabled easily with the current scons-based buildsystem. It's disabled because it's insanely wasteful of disk space and has caused too many problems already. autotools has no equivalent, though, so it's hardly relevant to this particular decision. > * The old configure script prints out warnings when it found that you > didn't have something interesting installed. The new scons-based > build system lacks this feature. This one is so important that I think we have to hack it into the scons system before the release whether we drop autotools or not. Put together, your reasons are pretty compelling though. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
