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[Milan Horák <stranger@...>]

Hi Bryan,

problem is not that SCons is orphaned.

Problem is that wiki reports SCons and Make pages as orphaned pages. It 
means that no wiki page is linking to them. But Build_System page does.

That's what I don't understand. Wiki reports them as orphaned although 
they are not.

Milan

Bryan Stillwell napsal(a):
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:13:11PM +0200, Milan Horák wrote:
> > - Build_System/Make and Build_System/SCons pages reported as orphaned
> > but are linked from Build_System. Any idea why are they reported this
> > way?
>
> The SCons build system that I wrote hasn't been updated lately and we
> should really just stay with one build system for now. I originally
> created it to fix the problems with the current recursive make build
> system, since doing a non-recursive make is rather difficult IMO. More
> details can be found in the "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" paper:
>
> http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf
>
> The other nice thing about the SCons build system was that it supports
> parallel builds on SMP systems (with multi-core processors, this can
> speed up compiles quite a bit). If people are still interested in using
> SCons, we can revive it pretty easily. Let me know. :)
>
> Bryan
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