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Re: [gpsd-dev] ✘scons 3.0.5
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Gary E. Miller |
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Re: [gpsd-dev] ✘scons 3.0.5 |
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Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:53:13 -0700 |
Yo Fred!
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:34:54 -0700 (PDT)
Fred Wright <address@hidden> wrote:
> Autodetect *alone* is a bad idea, since opportunistic configuration
> leads to nonreproducible builds. One shouldn't have to remove a
> dependency just to turn off a feature.
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> It's not unreasonable to use the environment to set the *default
> value* of options, but it should always be possible to specify the
> desired configuration explicitly, and have the build fail if the
> requested configuration doesn't work.
Agreed. Belt and suspenders.
> And in the particular case of Qt, one might have both versions
> installed (which was the whole point of the name change in the first
> place), so there may be no single "correct" value of qt_versioned.
When in doubt, use the latest version. Or latest known working
version.
But, mostly academic without a nice Qt sample client...
RGDS
GARY
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