gEDA-user: scons

[al davis]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 08:49, Dan McMahill wrote:
> which means that 3rd party packaging systems which might
> build things automatically have to have their own custom ways
> of configuring the tool.  Granted it is probably not hard,
> but it just adds up for those trying to maintain a large
> number of packages.

That's the only reason gnucap uses autotools.  I hacked together 
a system about 20 years ago that works very well as a 
development environment, but it doesn't have the targets that 
the packagers need.

When I said "been thinking of making a new one" I mean to 
enhance my old one to add the  features packagers need, with an 
autotools compatible interface, so you can still 
do "./configure;make".

I think I can copy the missing parts from autotools, then do 
some cleanup.  Then it's done.  It would consist of a configure 
script that is the same for all projects, and an 
enhanced "Make3" (from my old system), so it creates no new 
dependencies.