Re: [gpsd-dev] cmake: (was: Re: [PATCH]: Link Python extensions with libpython - attempt 3)

[Bernd Zeimetz]

On 14.01.2015 14:56, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > I'm still considering to stop maintaining gpsd because of all the
> > "fun" I had with scons. Never ever run into such a big piece of crap
> > during the last 19 years of working with open source software.
>
> I do not understand the basis of your animosity. It seems to me that
> the serious issues you've had have all been around distutils not being
> designed to run from within another build system.  What is your problem
> with scons itself?

My problem with scons is that I wasted hours of my life in trying to 
figure
out things in scons that would just work out of the box in a correct 
way.
Or that would have been easy to debug in other build systems by reading
a stupid Makefile...


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