[MacRuby-devel] scons Re: 0.2 available for testing

[Ernest Prabhakar]

Hi Laurent,

> maybe the
> best idea would be to throw autotools and use something else. Like a
> Rakefile for example (we can assume that everyone will have ruby and
> rake by default, since we require Leopard). Maybe there is a better
> alternative too.

Even though it is Python, I've heard good things about Scons <http://www.scons.org/ 
 > as a make/autoconf replacement....

-- Ernie P.

On May 29, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:

> On May 28, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>> On May 28, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Laurent Sansonetti wrote:
>>
>>> $ ./configure --enable-framework --enable-fat-binary --program-
>>> prefix=mac
>>
>> Any chance we can make these configure args the default?  I mean,
>> considering that we're really aiming at just one platform here...
>
> The only problem I see here is that there is no option to disable --
> program-prefix. You should be able to do --disable-framework and --
> disable-fat-binary, though.
>
> I also do not like that much these default args. Without them MacRuby
> still builds. Since we are replacing many parts of the original
> implementation, and also aiming at only one platform here, maybe the
> best idea would be to throw autotools and use something else. Like a
> Rakefile for example (we can assume that everyone will have ruby and
> rake by default, since we require Leopard). Maybe there is a better
> alternative too.
>
> Laurent
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