[Klug-general] autotools [was: Saturday 25th July 10am to 2pm]

[james morris]

On 18/7/2009, "Mike Evans" <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> i'm half tempted to look at scons instead, which is supposed to address
>> the autotools mess.
>>
>There will of course be another mess in it's place - all depends on
>whether it suits you better.  Anything that means you end up with the
>regulation directory structure to be distributed is good as far as I'm
>concerned.  At my last contract being a Java house for ECommerce, the
>build team made great use of Ant and achieved some great stuff included
>automated version control check-out, build, distribution and deployment.


Just wondering if you've come across waf:

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

Have just built a few packages from source which come with ./waf scripts.
Compared with ./configure, the output is very clean, and in colour too (
meaning I suppose, it's much less intimidating ). If that is any
reflection of it's ease of use/deployment (a listed reason to use it),
I might have to try it some time.

James.