On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:02:37PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote:
> Le mardi 24 novembre 2009 à 21:20 +, Graham Percival a écrit :
> > On the 16th, I gave up and fixed this one myself. However, I
> > discovered that I couldn't copy files from srcdir into the blddir
> > without changing their nam
Le mardi 24 novembre 2009 à 21:20 +, Graham Percival a écrit :
> On the 16th, I gave up and fixed this one myself. However, I
> discovered that I couldn't copy files from srcdir into the blddir
> without changing their name, which kind-of borks
> Documentation/pictures/.
I'm quite certain we
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:42:05PM +0100, John Mandereau wrote:
> Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 17:54 +, Graham Percival a écrit :
> > 1) if you can't duplicate the problem after checking out
> > dev/gperciva, then I'll check a third time to see if there's any
> > old version of waf floating aro
Sorry for the delay, it often takes me a while to catch all traffic on
Lily lists when I'm back from a trip, even a few-days one.
Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 17:54 +, Graham Percival a écrit :
> 1) if you can't duplicate the problem after checking out
> dev/gperciva, then I'll check a third t
Ok, it seems the the key was to call
bld.rescan(node)
after adding it.
I'm off to a short conference tomorrow. I expected to have internet
access, but when I mentioned it to one of the professors today, he
just laughed at me. :(so if I'm not around for a few days, that's
why.
I'm going t
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:21:16AM +0100, John Mandereau wrote:
> Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 00:21 +0100, John Mandereau a écrit :
> > Does the attached patch convince you to go on on Waf?
>
> Actually, please ignore my patch and checkout a SVN copy of Waf instead
>
> svn checkout http://waf.goo
Le jeudi 12 novembre 2009 à 00:21 +0100, John Mandereau a écrit :
> Does the attached patch convince you to go on on Waf?
Actually, please ignore my patch and checkout a SVN copy of Waf instead
svn checkout http://waf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ && mv trunk waf
then invoke waf-light from this chec
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Graham Percival wrote:
> What's the advantage of automake over the current system? (I'm not
> even certain what the current system is called!)
If anyone goes into this, could they PLEASE, PLEASE, document it
slightly better? [I'm almost certainly I'm doing insane things when
I
Le mercredi 11 novembre 2009 à 23:36 +, Graham Percival a écrit :
> Hmm. I don't completely follow, but does this explain why waf
> always succeeds on the second attempt? If not, it might be
> something weirder... but then again, if you're following it up on
> the waf-user list, then it's no
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:38:12PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> I don't have much experience *using* automake, but from what I've
> read:
>
> - A Makefile.am is easier to maintain than an equivalent handcoded
> makefile.
> - The generated makefiles will be very portable (not reliant on
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:21:47AM +0100, John Mandereau wrote:
> After hours of debugging and code inspection, I think you did nothing
> weird, it's a bug in Waf code: Node.py:Node.find_dir(), which looks up
> directories, call bld.rescan() which among others removes nodes of
> directories that ha
Le mercredi 11 novembre 2009 à 23:07 +, Graham Percival a écrit :
> Given that most of our users are on windows, I defined
> "portability" as "it will run on operating system X with Y extra
> software installed", where X should be large and Y should be
> small.
Then SCons and Waf are reasonabl
Le mardi 10 novembre 2009 à 23:34 +, Graham Percival a écrit :
> The basic problem is that waf doesn't like to have directories in the
> build tree that aren't present in the source tree. After asking for
> help, the main author pointed out a not-really-documented function
> that allowed me to
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:38:12PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On 2009-11-11, Graham Percival wrote:
> > What's the advantage of automake over the current system? (I'm
> > not even certain what the current system is called!)
>
> I don't have much experience *using* automake, but from what I'v
On 2009-11-11, Graham Percival wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:36:37PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Graham Percival
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:34:35PM +, Graham Percival wrote:
> > >> I'm just about ready to give up on waf.
> > >
> > >
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:36:37PM -0800, Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Graham Percival
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:34:35PM +, Graham Percival wrote:
> >> I'm just about ready to give up on waf.
> >
> > As Jan put it, "a new build system should be a brea
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Graham Percival
wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:34:35PM +, Graham Percival wrote:
>> I'm just about ready to give up on waf.
>
> In case anybody thinks this was rather fast, I spent 3-4 hours on
> Saturday doing waf, and 7-9 hours today. I'm not overly eag
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:34:35PM +, Graham Percival wrote:
> I'm just about ready to give up on waf.
In case anybody thinks this was rather fast, I spent 3-4 hours on
Saturday doing waf, and 7-9 hours today. I'm not overly eager to
throw away approximately 10 hours of work, but if it's not
I'm just about ready to give up on waf. (in particular, I'm not doing
anything else unless somebody convinces me otherwise) The
dev/gperciva branch can build various manuals in HTML and pdf,
including the texi2html init files and css stuff. However, you need
to run it twice -- the first time
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