On Friday 15 July 2005 20:42, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > > * it keeps checking the build environment every time you invoke scons, > again and again. It should detect the available libraries only once, as it > did some time ago.
That's still what it does, it just pulls the values from a cache. > * it builds again some sources (and links the executables again) when you > are installing the program as root. I don't see this problem, but Silvan has also reported it. Thomas suggested I update the bksys scripts which I haven't done yet. > * it has not support for the targets package-merge and package-messages to > keep up to date the pot/po files. It's there in the current bksys versions. > * scons has a nice ccache like feature, that can't be used, or even > enabled/disabled easily with the current scons-based buildsystem. As Chris said, it's disabled (unless you set the right env variable). > * there is no way to enable/disable every compile-time feature > individually, only some of them. I don't understand what you mean here. > * 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. We know, we'll fix this. > Anyway, all the above problems can be sorted out, I'm sure. But of course > this requires time and I don't think that it is a good moment now, near a > release time, to drop the old build system that is working well, replacing > it with another one that, even if it is updated and enhanced now, will > enjoy very few testing time. autoconf has never worked that well, and people have been using the scons build system for quite a while now. -- Guillaume. http://www.telegraph-road.org ------------------------------------------------------- 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
