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

[Ladislav Michl]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 04:06:02PM -0800, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo Ladislav!
> 
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 01:02:37 +0100
> Ladislav Michl <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 03:51:52PM -0800, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> > > I don't know how you can get timple than this:
> > >    scons -c && scons && scons check && scons install  
> > 
> > It would be fair to point out here you need to provide exactly the
> > same options and environment to all those calls otherwise you might
> > easily end with binaries rebuilt with another compiler when
> > installing.
> 
> Yes, of course.  Same for all build systems.  Change something in 
> mid stream, and you get junk

It is not the same at all. Those two phase build systems normally needs
configure options only during configure phase.

> > scons - a tool of constant reconfiguration...
> 
> I like it!

So, pretty please, do not make other people hate it by providing help
text which does not match source, doing insane things during build
and making it single use case centric. Thank you.

Btw, just updated gawk from 3.1.6 to 5.0.1 (13 years) and the only
thing I trully needed to change was pointer to its source. Gpsd
cross-build breaks after every single release :-/

        ladis