Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: news and survey

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

graydon hoare wrote:
> Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
>
> > Just had to plug my favorite cross platform build tool here.  Scons 
> > could solve all your building worries...
>
>
> er, I'm afraid scons doesn't help here. it doesn't configure and build 
> cross toolchains for you, nor build native dependencies with alternative 
> build systems of their own (*cough* boost), nor buy operating systems 
> and funny hardware to run the tests on.

Scons will configure and build cross toolchains and you can make it build native 
dependencies with what ever you want it to.

> as I've said in the past, I do *like* scons. it just doesn't solve all 
> the world's building problems. it's one piece in a big, ugly puzzle. I'd 
> even be happy enough to use it if I'd gotten around to writing a 
> distcheck rule (it doesn't have one by default). I'm only sticking with 
> automake out of inertia, but inertia is a "real" reason.

What do you mean by distcheck?

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Matthew A. Nicholson
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