[ITP] scons - Open Source software construction tool.

[David Rothenberger]

On 7/5/2013 2:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul  4 16:37, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> I'm ITP'ing this in preparation for packaging serf-1.3.0
>>
>> scons [1] is included in Debian [2] and Fedora [3].
> 
> Same reply as for net-snmp :)

Same reply as for net-scmp :)

It was a real nightmare using scons to build the new serf release.
They've abandoned autotools, which also means libtool. Unfortunately,
scon's support for Cygwin is ancient, so it builds DLLs as
lib${module}.dll and does not build an import library.

I did manage to patch scons to build an import library, but it still has
problems like installing the DLL in /usr/lib.

I sincerely hope that nobody will ever use scons. If it becomes popular,
I will quickly be out of my depth maintaining the package, since I'm no
gcc build expert nor a Python programmer.

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David Rothenberger  ----  daveroth@acm.org

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