From kde-devel  Fri Apr 29 09:00:29 2005
From: David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:00:29 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: scons as a build system for kdegames
Message-Id: <200504291100.29417.faure () kde ! org>
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On Friday 29 April 2005 10:58, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Freitag 29 April 2005 10:51 schrieb David Faure:
> > Sure python is installed. But how does a build system which doesn't create .la files
> > manage portability on systems where .la files are needed, e.g. for dlopening,
> > including dependent libraries (which are usually listed in the .la file)?
> Sure it can't do that? .la files are really pretty easy to write. Dependent libraries
> in .la files are only really needed when linking statically - and we do not support
> that anyway. So you would need to write out .la files to please lt_dlopen.

Ah I see. Didn't realize that you can write .la files by hand without using libtool.

> > scons is probably great on linux and *BSD, but did anyone try it on the
> > more "exotic" platforms that KDE supports?
> > 
> Like Windows? I heared rumours ;)

I was more thinking of Mac OS X, and yes, AIX and HP-UX.

> I'm also very interested in hearing problems with it on AIX and HP-UX, but I'm
> afraid we will hear after 4.0 about these problems ;(

Yeah.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
 
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