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| author | anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> | 2014-06-01 09:46:44 (GMT) |
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| committer | anatoly techtonik <techtonik@gmail.com> | 2014-06-01 09:46:44 (GMT) |
| commit | 2df3e0774d35b0685523dbbe89549d22d59cdde7 (patch) | |
| tree | c6a7d681d675e555d445b843230e5d293a5c454d | |
| parent | f920678b73f0e0a09cbbd8977a54f915c661279d (diff) | |
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Attempt to describe what SConf actually does for non-C programmers
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diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py b/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py index 068af3a..6cc8de8 100644 --- a/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py +++ b/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py @@ -1,6 +1,15 @@ """SCons.SConf Autoconf-like configuration support. + +In other words, this package allows to run series of tests to detect +capabilities of current system and generate config files (header files +in C/C++) that turn on system-specific options and optimizations. + +For example, it is possible to detect if optional libraries are present +on current system and generate config that makes compiler include them. +C compilers do not have ability to catch ImportError if some library is +not found, so these checks should be done externally. """ # |