Re: Can a build system other than autotools be used?

2006-07-31 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Bo Peng wrote: We are planning to submit lyx (www.lyx.org) to cygwin-apps. Although autotools is currently used as the primary build system, we have a scons based system that works better under cygwin, and may replace autotools in the future. Will cygwin accept a build

Re: Can a build system other than autotools be used?

2006-07-31 Thread Bo Peng
The only requirement is that the packages should be buildable with things that are already in the Cygwin distribution. Since, AFAIK, scons isn't yet, you might want to ITP scons before you ITP lyx. This is not a problem since scons is python-based so no additional build process is necessary.