[Bf-committers] Rewrite of our SCons scripts - preparing to commit

[Nathan Letwory]

Hi Ted,

Thanks for updating the freebsd scripts. The 'guessing' code has been
planned, but not yet started, as it has not been of stopping importance.
In any case, the pkg-config et al should be run *first*, and after that
any user-config and command-line given option should override this, so it
keeps to be in the spirit of the current configuration: platform defaults
first, then user defaults, ultimately overridable with command-line
options.

The second idea is nice, too, and imo sounds good to do at some point.
Anyway, thanks for your patch, I'll look through it and apply+commit.

/Nathan

ps. sorry for not replying right away, busybusybusy :)


On Ma 13.3.2006 23:26, Ted Schundler kirjoitti:
> I've been away for a bit, and just noticed scons doesn't work on BSD
> anymore. I uploaded a patch file as well as configuratiomn files for
> FreeBSD:
> http://astro.scu.edu/~ted/oss/blender/scons-freebsd-13Mar2006.tar.gz
> The archive has a patch for changes to existing files against current
> CVS. As well as the new configuration files for FreeBSD.
>
> In the patch, I also move a few platfiorm-dependant things from the
> SConscript files and generalized them. That way all platform
> configuration is done in those plantform-config.py files and not a
> mix.
>
> Since you asked for comments, I have two gripes with the current approach:
> A) It doesn't take advantage of pkg-config and such. Maybe there
> should be two passes - first, collection options. Then for the stuff
> that pkg-config/sdl-config are used for, run those tools and fill in
> values if they haven't already been specified.
>
> B) Most of the options for are going to be similar for several OSes -
> why not take advantage of that and have configuration files include
> each other? i.e. have bsd, osx, and linux all include from a common
> unix configuration. For example, what I hav with the freebsd
> configurations I posted.
>
>
> Ted (SpookyElectric)
>
>
> On 2/4/06, Nathan Letwory <jesterking at letwory.net> wrote:
>> The sunday I'll be available for quick help too, so anyone
>> interested in helping out testing the currently supported platforms, and
>> even more importantly, who want to help out creating the necessary
>> configurations for Cygwin, Solaris and FreeBSD should activate their
>> engines.
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/Nathan