[Build-common-hackers] Bug#470532: cdbs: please add scons rules file

[Timothy G Abbott]

Well, there are 5 CDBS packages using CDBS, but one would assume that 
since there is no scons.mk, most packages that use scons are probably not 
going to be using CDBS.

I don't have a convenient way to grep for scons in all the debian/rules 
files in Debian, but but Googling for 'scons dh_installman' suggests there 
are a few times that many debhelper packages using scons.

I'm currently using the following implementation of scons.mk for my 
package; I don't know scons well enough to be sure whether it's good, but 
it's certainly expressive enough for my package:

http://svn.vdrift.net/repos/vdrift/tags/release_12-26-2007_rc1/tools/debian/cdbs/scons.mk
http://svn.vdrift.net/repos/vdrift/tags/release_12-26-2007_rc1/tools/debian/cdbs/scons-vars.mk

 	-Tim Abbott

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> Timothy G Abbott wrote:
>> I would find it useful if there were a CDBS rules file for building
>> packages using scons.  It would also allow simplification of the existing
>> CBDS scons packages; Google for 'scons site:http://cdbs.ueberalles.net/'
>> (without the quotes) to get an approximate list.
>
> This is certainly doable, but 5 packages is a little low for adding a cdbs
> class, I think.
>