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Re: [ITP] scons - Open Source software construction tool.
- From: David Rothenberger <daveroth at acm dot org>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:17:48 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ITP] scons - Open Source software construction tool.
- References: <51D60757 dot 5090402 at acm dot org> <20130705093144 dot GB12869 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
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.
--
David Rothenberger ---- daveroth@acm.org
QOTD:
"I only touch base with reality on an as-needed basis!"