Re: [gpsd-dev] current nits

[Greg Troxel]

Mike Tubby <address@hidden> writes:

> On 29/06/2019 20:13, Hal Murray wrote:
>> address@hidden said:
>>> Or writing a shell script to do the sconsclean part instead.
>> I like that suggestion.
>
> I've never understood why gpsd uses scons in the first place when just
> about eveyone else does:
>
>     ./configure
>     make
>     make install
>
> and
>
>     make clean
>
> works for them...  (runs for the door ... clunk ;-)

Thanks for being my straight man!  In all seriousness, people thought at
the time scons was better, and we're still working through recovering to
get back to what autoconf did, with a healthy dose of denial :-)