Comments on: Adventures with SCons http://mihai.ibanescu.net/adventures-with-scons Mihai's few cents Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt Doar http://mihai.ibanescu.net/adventures-with-scons/comment-page-1#comment-103 Matt Doar Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:22:37 +0000 http://mihai.ibanescu.net/?p=38#comment-103 Good idea! I've been using SCons for a couple of years now. Works well for C, C++ and custom tool work. The Java world is more familiar with Ant. I hear that VMWare has moved some (all?) of their builds to it from make. However, there's usually a lot of momentum to continue using make, and it doesn't do autoconfig as well as the autotools yet (it's there, just not as widely used). Particularly nice is being able to put an: import pdb pdb.set_trace() somewhere in a build file and using scons --debug=pdb to step through non-obvious issues in a real debugger. ~Matt Good idea! I’ve been using SCons for a couple of years now. Works well for C, C++ and custom tool work. The Java world is more familiar with Ant. I hear that VMWare has moved some (all?) of their builds to it from make. However, there’s usually a lot of momentum to continue using make, and it doesn’t do autoconfig as well as the autotools yet (it’s there, just not as widely used). Particularly nice is being able to put an:

import pdb
pdb.set_trace()

somewhere in a build file and using scons –debug=pdb to step through non-obvious issues in a real debugger.

~Matt

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