Re: [gpsd-dev] current nits

[Mike Tubby]

On 30/06/2019 02:35, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Mike Tubby <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > On 29/06/2019 20:13, Hal Murray wrote:
> > > address@hidden said:
> > > > Or writing a shell script to do the sconsclean part instead.
> > > I like that suggestion.
> > I've never understood why gpsd uses scons in the first place when just
> > about eveyone else does:
> >
> >      ./configure
> >      make
> >      make install
> >
> > and
> >
> >      make clean
> >
> > works for them...  (runs for the door ... clunk ;-)
> Thanks for being my straight man!  In all seriousness, people thought at
> the time scons was better, and we're still working through recovering to
> get back to what autoconf did, with a healthy dose of denial :-)

If that's the case, surely writing more scripts to do what 'make clean' 
does correctly doesn't really make sense?

Bite the bullet and switch to autoconf?

Mike