Samba 4 build system - more thoughts on scons

[Tim Potter]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 08:42 +1000, tridge at samba.org wrote:

> If we are going to start using scons and it can replace configure then
> I'd rather switch over completely rather than using a mix. We already
> have a mix of perl, m4 and shell, to move to a mix of python, perl, m4
> and shell doesn't seem like a step in the right direction to
> me. Unfortunately this means rewriting an awful lot of existing m4
> tests, some of which are quite intricate. So we better be very sure
> that scons is the right way to go! I have no experience with it
> myself.

If you were keen to get rid of all the shell, perl and m4 I suppose a
lot of that could be written in Python actually as part of the build.

I would like to see how just the compiling and dependency calculation
side of things goes before trying a full conversion though.

> We also need to make sure that scons can really do all the things we
> need. For example we need:
> 
>  - an equivalent of the --some-option=blah stuff from autoconf

Yes.

>  - a way to have different CFLAGS in different directories (the
>    equivalent of extra_cflags.txt that we have now)

Yes.  It totally rocks.

>  - keep the build information about a directory in that directory,
>    while not using a recursive build

Yes.

>  - lots of autoconf tests for all of our HAVE_* and REPLACE_* defines

This is the bit I am slightly concerned about.  The last time I tried
each test was re-run at compile time (!) at the interface was a bit
clunky compared to the rest of the scons API.

> Are you confident that its going to be worthwhile to switch over?

I personally think if the autoconf business can be sorted out you will
never want to use make again.  (-:


Tim.
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