Re: [scons-devel] auto-configuration plans

David Snopek wrote:

>Bram Moolenaar said:
>  
>
>>I just thought of another use of the configure module, if it is made to
>>work in a generic way: from distutils.
>>    
>>
>
>Ok, this is the last I am going to say on this subject because if you're
>going to do the work then that's your business.  But since the SCons build
>engine is already a module, there is nothing stopping you from using the
>existing configure code from your setup.py.  
>
This is a really good point. Bram could just take SConf as it is today, 
and write a thin wrapper to adapt it to AAP (i.e. take the construction 
environment variables and copy them to AAP variable space), and be done 
with it.

>Just install SCons into your
>site-packages do something like:
>
>from SCons.Environment import Environment
>from SCons.SConf import SConf as Configure
>
>env = Environment()
>sconf = Configure(env)
>
># just an example
>if sconf.CheckLib('SDL', 'SDL_Init'):
>    print "We have SDL!"
>
>sconf.Finish()
>
So, we've already got a stand-alone configure script. Stand-alone in the 
sense that the user doesn't have to build his software with SCons and 
can use whatever build tool he wants. I guess something like this could 
be used to generate AAP recipes rather than somehow embedding SConf in 
AAP itself.




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