autoconf and epel-5

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 18:11 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 10:05 +0100, yersinia wrote:
> > 
> > Perhaps off topic. Someone know the prons/cons of scons 
> > 
> > http://www.scons.org/? 
> > My first impression is that it is very similar to cmake as design
> > phylosophy, but use only phyton on the target system and this a plus,
> > IMHO. 
> 
> No, despite hype leading you to believe otherwise, SCons is not in the
> same class as autotools or CMake. SCons is only marginally better than
> hand-hacking makefiles. I can't recommend it.
> 
> I speak from experience with the Second Life client. SCons got changed
> out for CMake for good reason...

For the record (see other branch of this thread), waf is a sorta-fork of
SCons, they're similar in several ways - the waf developer decided to
things His Way.

This is waf's Why We're So Great page:

http://code.google.com/p/waf/wiki/WafAndOtherBuildSystems
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