Prototype buildsystem "Drake"

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Tue Jul 19 01:26:43 PDT 2011


On 2011-07-19 04:51, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Jacob Carlborg"<doob at me.com>  wrote in message
>> Ok. Will the build script change the configuration file?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Seems kind of strange. Usually the config file is used to control the
>> build script, not the other way around.
>>
>
> It's not really "the other way around" since the buildscript would still
> load the configuration file and use the settings in it (I guess I neglected
> to mention that part). It's just that creating it isn't done separately from
> the buildscript like with the clunky autotools. From a quick browse through
> the docs, Waf seems to have the buildscript direct the creation of the
> configuration file, too.

I start to think that we mean different things when we say "config 
file". What would you have in the config file?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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