Re: WAF (Was: build tools)

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Dec 2, 2007 11:46 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt> wrote:
> In case anyone is interested, feel free to try out a 100% WAF-ied
> version of gnome-python:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~gjc/gnome-python-2.21.0.tar.bz2
>
> The WAF based tarball (including a self contained waf script, which is
> all you need to build) is 249K, while an autotools version is 424K.  I
> could reduce the size even more if I removed configure.ac and the
> Makefile.am's.  It also builds much faster, especially if you count
> the ./autogen.sh part, though I didn't to get actual numbers.
>
> When I have some more time I will see about making jhbuild use waf, to
> get people testing this new system.  Later, if no serious problems or
> objections are found, I would like to switch to it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> PS: try the '-p' waf option for greater eye candy effect.
>

Gustavo and others,

In order to try out waf for your project you can have both autotools
and waf build support in SVN. We did this for cheese  [1]. I believe
also gnome-package-kit and package-kit have this

For waf you just need the waf script in your main project directory
and  wscript or wscript_build in all directories

You will need waf from SVN to have correct localization report. You
have to do the following

svn checkout http://waf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ waf
cd waf
./waf-light --make-waf

Copy the resulting waf script to your project directory and then right
the necessary wscript files.
You can look for examples on what to put in the wscript files in the
demos directory of waf or look at existing projects with waf support
such as cheese.

It would be great if more GNOME projects would try waf. This way we
can see if it is feature complete for GNOME support.

Jaap

[1] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/cheese/trunk/