Build system for KDE4

Guillaume Laurent glaurent at telegraph-road.org
Mon Jun 13 09:07:39 BST 2005


Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> Another (IMO pretty important) thing the build system needs: easy 
> configurability.
> 
> Users should be able to select stuff like --with-pam/--without-pam easily 
> (without editing Makefiles or the likes), and where possible this stuff 
> should be autodetected while keeping it overridable...

bksys has that. It's not perfect yet in that it takes a bit of code in 
the SConstruct file itself, but Thomas is working on this issue.

This has been discussed a while ago, my recommendation hasn't changed : 
scons+bksys is the best replacement candidate IMHO.

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Guillaume
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