Re: autotools gives autopain

[Johan Dahlin <johan gnome org>]

Nickolay V. Shmyrev wrote:
> В Сбт, 17/12/2005 в 15:03 +0800, Davyd Madeley пишет:
> > On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 22:26 +0000, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> > > Sean D'Epagnier wrote:
> > >
> > > > Isn't it true that scons requires you download and install it as an 
> > > > extra program to use it?  Many users may not have scons and may not 
> > > > want to install it, but do want to install gnome (by compiling from 
> > > > source code).
> > > This is identical to the situation for autotools.
> > Only to run autogen, not configure.
> >
> > --d
>
> You are probably not correct here Davyd, current gnome builds do require
> pkg-config to be installed.

pkg-config is not tied to any specific build systems.
If we were to switch to SCons it'll still be required.
However, pkg-config provides a few macros to integrate nicely with
autotools, these and quite a few other scripts needs to be rewritten
for SCons.

Johan Dahlin