SCons SCons is an Open Source software construction toolthat is, a next-generation build tool.
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SCons is an Open Source software construction toolthat is, a next-generation build tool. SCons is an Open Source software construction toolthat is, a next-generation build tool.Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache.In short, SCons is an easier, more reliable and faster way to build software. Here are some key features of "SCons": · Configuration files are Python scripts--use the power of a real programming language to solve build problems. · Reliable, automatic dependency analysis built-in for C, C and Fortran--no more "make depend" or "make clean" to get all of the dependencies. Dependency analysis is easily extensible through user-defined dependency Scanners for other languages or file types. · Built-in support for C, C , D, Java, Fortran, Yacc, Lex, Qt and SWIG, and building TeX and LaTeX documents. Easily extensible through user-defined Builders for other languages or file types. · Building from central repositories of source code and/or pre-built targets. · Built-in support for fetching source files from SCCS, RCS, CVS, BitKeeper and Perforce. · Built-in support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and past Visual Studio versions, including generation of .dsp, .dsw, .sln and .vcproj files. · Reliable detection of build changes using MD5 signatures; optional, configurable support for traditional timestamps. · Improved support for parallel builds--like make -j but keeps N jobs running simultaneously regardless of directory hierarchy. · Integrated Autoconf-like support for finding #include files, libraries, functions and typedefs. · Global view of all dependencies--no more multiple build passes or reordering targets to build everything. · Ability to share built files in a cache to speed up multiple builds--like ccache but for any type of target file, not just C/C compilation. · Designed from the ground up for cross-platform builds, and known to work on Linux, other POSIX systems (including AIX, *BSD systems, HP/UX, IRIX and Solaris), Windows NT, Mac OS X, and OS/2. What's New in This Release: · -- THE $CHANGED_SOURCES, $CHANGED_TARGETS, $UNCHANGED_SOURCES · AND $UNCHANGED_TARGETS VARIABLES WILL BECOME RESERVED · A future release (probably 1.3.0) will make the construction · variable names $CHANGED_SOURCES, $CHANGED_TARGETS, · $UNCHANGED_SOURCES and $UNCHANGED_TARGETS into reserved · construction variable names controlled by SCons itself (like · the current $SOURCE, $TARGETS, etc.). · Setting these variable names in the current release will generate · a warning but still set the variables. When they become reserved · variable names, they will generate a different warning message · and attempts to set these variables will be ignored. · SCons configurations that happen to use these variable names · should be changed to use different variable names, in order · to ensure that the configuration continues to work with future · versions of SCons. · -- THE Options OBJECT AND RELATED FUNCTIONS NOW GENERATE WARNINGS · Use of the Options object, and related functions BoolOption(), · EnumOption(), ListOption(), PackageOption() and PathOption() · were announced as deprecated in release 0.98.1. Since then, · however, no warning messages were ever implemented for the · use of these deprecated functions. · By default, release 1.2.0 prints warning messages when these · deprecated features are used. Warnings about all deprecated · features may be suppressed by using the --warn=no-deprecated command-line option: · $ scons --warn=no-deprecated · Or by using the appropriate SetOption() call in any SConscript file: · SetOption('warn', 'no-deprecated') · You may optionally disable just warnings about the deprecation of the Options object and its related functions as follows: · SetOption('warn', 'no-deprecated-options') · The current plan is for these warnings to become mandatory · (non-suppressible) in release 1.3.0, and for the use of Options · and its related functions to generate errors in release 2.0.

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