Re: WAF (Was: build tools)

["Daniel Svensson" <dsvensson gmail com>]

On Dec 3, 2007 6:30 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt> wrote:
> I honestly don't see the point of supporting runtime tests with cross
> compilation in the build tool.  I mean, the most that the tool can do is
> give an error message saying the test cannot be run.  How will that
> help?  And how does autoconf get away with it?  Last I checked, autoconf
> just gave an error message; but then how do people do cross-compilation
> if some tests cannot be run?

If I understood Ross correctly, with a site file that keeps the
apropriate settings for a specific build. Which in the case of waf
would work similar to the cache file, I assume.

-- 
Daniel Svensson, <dsvensson gmail com>