[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] why autotools?

[From: Gustavo Barbieri]

On 9/25/05, Asko Kauppi <askok at dnainternet.net> wrote:
>
> Scons can do the compile-time-dependency checks quite nicely, but
> admitted, it's a different way of thinkin' altogether (build scripts
> are all Python).  Anyhow, the reasoning you guys are giving is
> meaningful, although I still think use of autotools is slowing down
> package creation unnecessarily. Good points, tho.
>
> btw, One neat thing I especially value in Scons is the way it
> considers changes in compilation flags as a trigger for
> recompilation. That is, it's much more clever than regular make, and
> essentially takes away the need to 'make clean' every so often.

I'm a SCons lover too, but I must admit it lacks a big library test as
autotools have, things like test for gtk, sdl, alsa, ... must be coded
by hand (however there are examples on scons.org/ wiki).

We could change that proposing SCons replacements for current
tutorials and even packages.

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