I suppose in terms of scons and boost, then next question is how easy is it to build rpm/deb packages etc when using these build systems? Its very easy with autotooled projects. Don't get me wrong, I hate autotools, hence my interest in alternatives. Hopefully these comments aren't dragging us off topic here - these could be reasons to use Scons over Boost Build I suppose - depends on the answers really. Cheers, Gaz
-----Original Message----- From: Sohail Somani [mailto:s.somani@fincad.com] Sent: 13 September 2005 18:19 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Scons users?
-----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Foster Gareth Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 9:37 AM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Scons users?
How does scons fair in terms of pulling in other libraries? I have used Autotools and using anything from there that doesn't have pkg-config support (like boost, opengl etc) is a nightmare.
I believe scons can parse pkg-config output out of the box and set up your CFLAGs etc appropriately but my mileage with this has varied immensly. Anyway, its very simple to do it yourself as you have a real programming language available.
I think scons could learn a bit from autotools though I guess autotools is only useful because its popular.
Sohail
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