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["Johan Hoffman" <jhoffman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:49:19PM +0200, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> Johan Jansson wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > There's been some talk about moving the DOLFIN build system to
>> > SCons. Any news on this front? We did some work on the build system a
>> > few months ago, introducing libtool for example, but there's still
>> > work to do.
>> >
>> > I think the autotools system is starting to show its age, perhaps
>> > there is no alternative for ultra-portability, but that's not really a
>> > priority for us. So I would very much support an effort to switch to
>> > something better for us, and do my best to help, even if I have no
>> > experience with SCons.
>> >
>>
>> I agree. I find autotools very cryptic and painstaking because I don't
>> understand it well (nor do I want to). On the surface, Scons seems to be
>> a good alternative.
>>
>> I heard from Theo that he's working on a Windows port of all FEniCS
>> components. I imagine the build system is a major part of this. Looks
>> like Scons works with Windows.
>>
>> Garth
>
> Agree. Very few people understand make + automake + autoconf and I'm
> not one of them.
>
> I think we should just go ahead and try to create at Scons build
> system for DOLFIN. We can add it to the current development
> tree. It shouldn't be any problem to have Scons and autotools living
> side by side until the Scons system works. Then we can just delete all
> the autotools files.
>
> If we run into trouble, I'm sure we can get some good help from Arve
> Knudsen who is our Scons expert here at Simula.
>
> /Anders

Sounds good.

I have no experience with Scons myself, but it appears to be a good
alternative. Good to hear that we have access to a Scons expert.

/Johan





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