what to to if Scons required?

cenobyte at dragoncrypt.com cenobyte at dragoncrypt.com
Tue Nov 8 14:18:19 EST 2011


 On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:47:29 +0100, EdorFaus wrote:
> On 11/08/2011 08:55 AM, Xiangfu Liu wrote:
>> On 11/07/2011 11:15 PM, cenobyte at dragoncrypt.com wrote:
>>> Hi, I am wondering how to make a makefile if the program requires
>>> being built with Scons? By the way, I am looking at Xiangfu's
> <snip>
>> I mark it as broken because the 'Scons' :(
>>
>> we need find out how to pass the CC, CFLAGS etc to the 'Scons'
>> maybe add a 'custom-openwrt.py', do you have any experience on 
>> 'Scons'?
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't have any real experience with SCons myself, but took a look
> at it now, reading some documentation and experimenting a little bit.
>
> SCons does, by design, not automatically copy environment variables
> from the original environment to the environment used to build
> programs.
>
> However, it turns out to be fairly easy to make it do so. Simply put
> something like this at the top of the SConstruct file:
>
> import os
> env = DefaultEnvironment()
> if 'CC' in os.environ:
>         env['CC']=os.environ['CC']
> if 'CFLAGS' in os.environ:
>         env.MergeFlags(os.environ['CFLAGS'])
>
> This makes it copy the CC and CFLAGS environment variables into the
> appropriate execution environment variables used by SCons to build C.
>
> I tested this by setting CC to echo before running scons, using the
> hello world example in the scons user manual. :)
>
> Of course, if the SConstruct file already does things with the
> execution environment (DefaultEnvironment() or Environment()), it
> might need to be checked to ensure it doesn't overwrite these 
> changes.
>
> As for making a makefile, I haven't looked at the source for the
> package this was about, but I'm guessing that your build host expects
> to be able to just run "make" to build the program, but the project
> doesn't have a Makefile already, so you need to make one.
>
> I would guess that the solution to this is pretty obvious, but just
> for completeness, the Makefile I wrote (which works for me) looks 
> like
> this:
>
> all:
> scons
> clean:
> scons -c
> .PHONY: all clean
>
>
> This, of course, assumes that SCons is installed on the computer
> doing the building; if not, it would be possible to make the makefile
> install it locally first (assuming Python is installed and 
> available),
> and also to clean it up (remove it) afterwards (when calling clean).

 awesome, thanks, will try soon!




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