Glas List: Re: [glas] build-system for glas

From: Philipp Schwaha (schwaha_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-11 10:05:23

waf is much faster than scons and also supports unit tests, which can be
done with scons, but are in my experience quite cumbersome.

I have not tried any fortran code yet and have not found any examples
for it, I will have to look into this!

greetings
        Philipp

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 14:36 +0100, Karl Meerbergen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Waf is python based. What are the advantages compared to scons?
> 
> Whatever the choice of build system is, I think it is important that 
> fortran should also be able to be compiled. I recall that we (at FFT) 
> had some problems with making bindings to blas 1 functions on some 
> platforms. The only way to circonvent this was making a subroutine in 
> fortran and using this in the blas backend. Perhaps I should first check 
> whether this is still the case and identify more precisely what the 
> problem was.
> 
> However, another point is that we will also perform performance tests on 
> various platforms. Ideally these will be performed with the same build 
> system as the regression tests. I would like to make comparisons with 
> some fortran codes, not just other c++ or c codes.
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> 
> Philipp Schwaha wrote:
> 
> >might I suggest you take a look at waf:
> >http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/bksys.html
> >
> >greetings
> >	Philipp
> >
> >On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:18 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Thursday 04 January 2007 10:33 am, Simon Perreault wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Toon Knapen wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Opinions?
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>The KDE project recently switched to CMake (http://www.cmake.org). It
> >>>was a huge success. CMake is cross-platform, easy to learn and use, and
> >>>has proven powerful enough to handle one of the biggest open-source
> >>>projects around.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I have been quite happy with scons.
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