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Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?


From: Gary E. Miller
Subject: Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 15:32:24 -0800

Yo Bernd!

On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 00:27:26 +0100
Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 2/6/20 12:19 AM, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 05:55:15PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:  
> >> Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>:  
> >>> Imho the only useful alternative is cmake. Or meson, if you
> >>> really think so.  
> >>
> >> Both two-phase systems.  Why do people keep building these things?
> >> It's a bad idea that never gets better noo matter how often it's
> >> repeated.  
> > 
> > First phase is discovering build environment. So unless you found a
> > way how to do this very quickly, people will keep building those
> > two-phase systems, just to save time spent waiting for recompile.  
> 
> Exactly. Scons is wasting a lot of time by doing that again and again.

No, scons does it once.  Then caches.

> When I'm debugging ceph on mipsel I'd have to wait half an hour to see
> if my changes build. Thats just useless.

ceph?  Does ceph use scons?  I really doubt that more than a minute of that
is in scons.

RGDS
GARY
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