Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?

[Ladislav Michl]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 03:56:42PM -0800, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Ladislav!
> 
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 00:46:56 +0100
> Ladislav Michl <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > scons is very quick to determine the build environment, and then
> > > caches it for later use.  The entire scons time is a tiny fraction
> > > of the rest of the buld, test and install times.  
> > 
> > In the other words, to make it aware of environment change (library
> > installed), you need to tell it to dump that cache, right?
> 
> Yes.  Takes seconds.

Then it just does something it is not needed at all at each run and yet
it needs to be informed about change.

> > So instead of reconfiguring only after change, scons determines each
> > time it was already configured, merely informs user about doing so
> > which forms more than a half of its terminal output after single file
> > change.
> 
> I'm not sure I parse that very long sentence.  If by that, you meant
> that scons just displays its cache, instead of reconfigureing everything,
> then yes.  It takes seconds even on a RasPi.
> 
> You can turn that off with "scons -q".

Care to try that advice before writing it out?

        ladis