[Ardour-Dev] build system, libs, cmdline

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:01 +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Rigg"
> Subject: Re: [Ardour-Dev] build system, libs, cmdline
> >
> > scons --implicit-deps-unchanged
> >
> > Don't use it after a CVS update, after unpacking a new tarball or
> > if you've changed any dependencies though.
> >
> Thanks John.  That might help Jérémy as well as me.  FWIW I now build Ardour
> using an IDE called Code::Blocks (as an alternative to scons).  Each time I
> do an Ardour upgrade (i.e. a major upgrade) I perform a full scons build but
> from that point onwards I build everything in Code::Blocks.  It works really
> well.

that flag is useful but ... it doesn't override the "configure" style
checking. if you actually measure the performance of scons, you will
find that there is no single thing that makes it slow. the actual
configure checks are fairly fast. the slowest step appears to be md5sum
checking of all dependents against their last known state, along with
computing current dependencies. that flag says "dependencies have not
changed" and so saves a little time. it doesn't help much with a
single-file recompile, though.

waf fixes all this, without changing the basic structure of the build
system. there have been some reservations about whether or not waf is
"mature" enough to handle building something like ardour, which is the
main reason we have not switched to it.

as for IDE's ... people are obviously welcome to use whatever they want,
but the official build system is required to be (a) almost entirely
platform independent (b) not integrated with an editor. XCode on OS X is
probably one of the nicest IDE's around, but if ardour had adopted it in
some strange parallel universe, linux compilation would be a mess. 




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