Prototype buildsystem "Drake"

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 05:28 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[ . . . ]
> Granted, I've never used this sort of feature from any buildsystem, but I 
> thought we were talking about something like the "configure" command in Waf. 
> My understanding is that it's like the "./configure" from autotool's 
> "./configure && make && make install", (except hopefully without needing to 
> check quite so much stuff or needing the user to manually run the configure 
> command).

Waf does indeed have a configure phase and a build phase.  As long as
the configuration remains unchanged after a "waf configure" and there
hasn't been a "waf distclean" then you only ever need to build.

SCons on the other hand runs all the configuration checks in the
SConscript file on every run.

I am never sure which I prefer, they both have positives and negatives.

> Apperently some projects need to have their buildsystem check for the 
> existance of, locations of, and details about certain things on the local 
> system before building. So...that stuff.

I would have thought this would be all projects that are distributed as
source?
-- 
Russel.
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