scons

[mirv]

Just curious as to if anyone has tried scons as an alternative to make, and if so what they think of it?
I had a brief look over it, seems simple & poweful enough, but first looks can be deceiving.

[Whistler]

http://fear.sf.net

[Rick]

Damn this looks good!
I think I'm going to switch...never really liked all those annoying auto tools :-\

[EDIT]
WOW! Now I see why KDE is switching to SCons
You just need to make a single small text file for checking libs, settings directory etc. Here is a small example:

Library('libtest', ['libtest.cpp'])

env = Environment(LIBPATH='.', CPPPATH = '.')
conf = Configure(env)

if not conf.CheckLibWithHeader('test', 'main.h', 'C++', 'test();', 1):
    print 'Did not find libtest.a or test.lib, exiting!'
    Exit(1)

env = conf.Finish()

env.Program('test2', 'test2.cpp')

This will:

• build static lib 'libtest.a',
• check if libtest.a and main.h exist,
• the function 'test()' can be called,
• append lib libtest to the lib list if all gone well
• Build test2 and link it with libtest

With autotools this would give me about 10 scripts and 5 config files