Re: Issue 979 in lilypond: waf build system

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Comment #6 on issue 979 by Carl.D.Sorensen: waf build system
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=979

Two items:

1) Thomas is unconvinced.  In his mind this is a technical limitation, not  
a yet-to-be-implemented feature.
In his words, "Copying files around usually indicates a poorly designed  
compiler or a
badly-designed compilation rule. Please re-think the build
transformations and read the book a few more times."

I'm unable to mount a defense of our intended use of waf to copy files from  
srcdir to blddir, because I don't
understand the issues.  I've read the thread on -devel
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.lilypond.devel/25259),
I've grepped through dev/waf for wscript, with no success.

I can't find any waf scripts in dev/waf, so I can't learn what has been  
tried and failes.

I can't grok the current build system, so I don't even know what we're  
trying to do.

If you could give me a short description as to what we need to copy, then  
perhaps I can figure out
how to explain the why.  Or alternatively, if you could point me to the  
code that fails, which I can't seem to
find, I may be able to infer the step you're trying to make by myself.

Thanks,

Carl


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