Comments on: Viewer Build Script is Yucky http://tentacolor.com/2007/02/28/viewer-build-script-is-yucky/ Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:14:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jacek Lives » Blog Archive » Baby’s First Patch http://tentacolor.com/2007/02/28/viewer-build-script-is-yucky/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Jacek Lives » Blog Archive » Baby’s First Patch Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:45:04 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=75#comment-89 [...] the patch doesn’t address either of the things that were bugging me in my earlier post about the build script. But, as it turns out, neither of those issues were real problems (just problems in my head), so [...] [...] the patch doesn’t address either of the things that were bugging me in my earlier post about the build script. But, as it turns out, neither of those issues were real problems (just problems in my head), so [...]

]]> By: Jacek http://tentacolor.com/2007/02/28/viewer-build-script-is-yucky/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Jacek Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:56:15 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=75#comment-82 Thinking about it now, including the current working directory would make sense in an environment like Linden Lab, where there are many different versions of the client floating around, and you have to keep them separate. "The SConstruct file isn't dumb... it's just misunderstood!" Thinking about it now, including the current working directory would make sense in an environment like Linden Lab, where there are many different versions of the client floating around, and you have to keep them separate.

“The SConstruct file isn’t dumb… it’s just misunderstood!”

]]> By: Jacek http://tentacolor.com/2007/02/28/viewer-build-script-is-yucky/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Jacek Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:36:09 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=75#comment-81 I win at life! Fixing #1 fixed #2! (All I did was remove the "os.getcwd()" part from line 109). Now it detects the already-compiled stuff! I found out that it was looking in the wrong place by using the "--debug=explain" option from this page: http://www.scons.org/doc/0.96.1/HTML/scons-user/c2746.html#AEN2750 I win at life! Fixing #1 fixed #2! (All I did was remove the “os.getcwd()” part from line 109). Now it detects the already-compiled stuff!

I found out that it was looking in the wrong place by using the “–debug=explain” option from this page:

http://www.scons.org/doc/0.96.1/HTML/scons-user/c2746.html#AEN2750

]]> By: Jacek http://tentacolor.com/2007/02/28/viewer-build-script-is-yucky/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Jacek Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:25:14 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=75#comment-80 "Note that when you're not using an SConscript file in the src subdirectory, you must actually specify that the program must be built from the build/hello.c file that SCons will duplicate in the build subdirectory." http://www.scons.org/doc/0.96.1/HTML/scons-user/x1981.html (I don't think the build script is doing that.) “Note that when you’re not using an SConscript file in the src subdirectory, you must actually specify that the program must be built from the build/hello.c file that SCons will duplicate in the build subdirectory.”

http://www.scons.org/doc/0.96.1/HTML/scons-user/x1981.html

(I don’t think the build script is doing that.)

]]> By: Jacek http://tentacolor.com/2007/02/28/viewer-build-script-is-yucky/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Jacek Thu, 01 Mar 2007 05:21:20 +0000 http://tentacolor.com/?p=75#comment-79 Save a keystroke: use SCONSFLAGS! http://www.scons.org/doc/0.96.1/HTML/scons-user/c1220.html#AEN1225 Save a keystroke: use SCONSFLAGS!

http://www.scons.org/doc/0.96.1/HTML/scons-user/c1220.html#AEN1225

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