[Scons-users] Librarian tool

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 17:34 +0000, Kenny, Jason L wrote:

> I personally have thought of this myself. I think this currently is

> viewed as a tool in SCons. I personally thought of having a library

> directory in Parts as I thought this would help separate stuff better.

> I have not done this myself. The other point of view here might be

> that this is a what the configure stuff should do, as this is a common

> way it is used in a classic makefile way.

> 

> I personally like the idea of being able to apply to the environment a

> tool and or library and have it configured correctly.


I have to admit I think the core problem is that SCons assumes you are
using C or C++ (with Fortran tacked on) and that you will use the
default set up – which is basically a hardwiring of a subset of the
tools. In effect the other tools are a hack add on.

I have given up on trying to have a separate D tooling and am grafting
in D support more along the lines of C++ and Fortran. However this is
clearly a fundamentally failing strategy as the smart_linker function
will become so complicated it will fail under its own weight!

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