--- Chad Austin <caustin@gmail.com> wrote:
SCons is awesome!
SCons is awesome indeed! I am using it ever since the repository support was added (0.08 or so). However, there is one thing I have to hack around: the implicit dependency scan of the boost tree is horribly slow on some older platforms (minutes before the first compilation command is issued) and even on new platforms I find the waits very annoying when I am in a debug/recompile cycle. 18 months ago or so I submitted a patch that allowed me to turn the implicit dependency scan on/off for selected subdirectories. However, the SCons people didn't even buy into the idea, let alone the patch. Right now I resort to the trick where I add include paths to CPPFLAGS instead of CPPPATH. It is not pretty at all because I have remember to do this in each and every Environment, and it is difficult to pinpoint where I might have forgotten to do so. Since you are a SCons developer that is also using Boost: don't you have the same problem? Is there a chance that SCons will at some point provide a rational scheme for turning the implicit dependency scan on/off in selected subdirectories that are known to be static? Is there an alternative that I missed? Ralf __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail