Re: SCons'ified PyGTK

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:58 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> Qui, 2005-12-29 �18:35 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro escreveu:
> >   Behold! A SCons'ified PyGTK is now available:
> > 
> > http://www.gnome.org/~gjc/pygtk-2.8.3.tar.gz
> > http://www.gnome.org/~gjc/pygtk-scons.diff
> > 
> >   It needs scons 0.96.91, instead of make.  I had to invest a lot of
> > effort and time to make this happen, due to missing functionality in
> > base scons.  However, I tried to be careful to split out generic
> > functionality into a separate 'scons tool' that could potentically be
> > reused outside of PyGTK.  I didn't test it on win32, but in theory it
> > should work, with more or less adjustments.
> > 
> >   Features of this tool include 'dist' and 'distcheck' support, along
> > with configure checks for pkg-config modules, python version, python
> > headers, etc.  It should be noted that the scons-based tarball is only
> > 595K vs the 919K autotools tarball.  The difference is 324K, while the
> > scons-0.96.91.tar.gz full source takes 343K.
> 
>   Also some interesting timing statistics:
> 
> pygtk build method	time (real)
> ===================================
> scons			1m8s
> ./configure && make	1m28s
> ./autogen.sh && make	1m34s
> 
>   This is on a AMD64 3000+ system with 512 MiB of RAM.

Could you perhaps add some of this information to the new wiki please:

http://live.gnome.org/scons

I think Bj�is working with gnome-hello and has some "scons tool"
ideas he is working on too -- might be good to work together.

Thanks, Richard.