<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'>While upgrading my Slackware to 14.1 so I could install Bochs and re-compiling my apps I saw that esr's gpsd requires something called scons for its build system:<br><br><div id="1"><a href="http://www.scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-user/c258.html">http://www.scons.org</a><br><br>Here is an example from the docs:<br><br><br><blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 7px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);"><div><p> Here's the famous "Hello, World!" program in C: </p><pre class="programlisting"> int main() { printf("Hello, world!\n"); } </pre><p> And here's how to build it using <span class="application">SCons</span>. Enter the following into a file named <tt class="filename">SConstruct</tt>: </p><pre class="programlisting"> Program('hello.c') </pre><p> This minimal configuration file gives <span class="application">SCons</span> two pieces of information: what you want to build (an executable program), and the input file from which you want it built (the <tt class="filename">hello.c</tt> file). <a href="http://www.scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-user/a8588.html#b-Program"><code class="function">Program</code></a> is a <i class="firstterm">builder_method</i>, a Python call that tells <span class="application">SCons</span> that you want to build an executable program. </p><p> That's it. Now run the <tt class="filename">scons</tt> command to build the program. On a POSIX-compliant system like Linux or UNIX, you'll see something like: </p><pre class="screen"> % <kbd class="userinput">scons</kbd> scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building targets ... cc -o hello.o -c hello.c cc -o hello hello.o scons: done building targets. </pre><p> On a Windows system with the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler, you'll see something like: </p><pre class="screen"> C:\><kbd class="userinput">scons</kbd> scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building targets ... cl /Fohello.obj /c hello.c /nologo link /nologo /OUT:hello.exe hello.obj embedManifestExeCheck(target, source, env) scons: done building targets. </pre> </div></blockquote>Has anybody poked around this thing?<br><br>tty<br><br></div></div></body></html>