Re: [gem5-dev] site_scons

2017-05-05 Thread Andreas Sandberg
Hi Gabe, My cmake experiments were mostly along the lines of a feasibility study. We (as in ARM) don't have any plans to rewrite gem5's build system anytime soon. My view is that anything that improves the modularity / readability of the scons scripts would be greatly appreciated. Cheers,

Re: [gem5-dev] site_scons

2017-05-02 Thread Jason Lowe-Power
Hi Gabe, Reorganizing the SCons files would undoubtedly improve the build system. Before you get started down this road, I thought you'd might like to know some of the discussions we've been having about the gem5 build system. We've been musing a move away from SCons. I think Andreas has done

Re: [gem5-dev] site_scons

2017-05-02 Thread Andreas Sandberg
Hi Gabe, I'm planning to push the pybind patches today. I'm currently re-running the full regression suite to ensure that there are no rebasing issues. Once that completes, I'll hit the blue button and submit it. //Andreas On 02/05/2017 06:31, Gabe Black wrote: Hi folks. I've been working on

[gem5-dev] site_scons

2017-05-01 Thread Gabe Black
Hi folks. I've been working on our scons setup a lot in the last week or so, and having everything in one or two really long files makes it really easy to lose track of where things are, what you're working on, where values came from, etc. scons has a mechanism called site_scons which sounds like