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author | Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@oberbrunner.com> | 2014-07-19 22:45:32 (GMT) |
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committer | Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@oberbrunner.com> | 2014-07-19 22:45:32 (GMT) |
commit | 2e28a4db2dcc711d8cd47784a91fc70d15c96a9f (patch) | |
tree | 5ad251cab252813ca716b989cbdbf5855f3c120b /src/engine | |
parent | 235e89d5f6f412c007a6cda4022730bd5d693b83 (diff) | |
parent | d8f294851e83c691df90373ec45dad97b28000c5 (diff) | |
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Merged in techtonik/scons (pull request #151)
review.py: Remove script, we now use pull requests for reviews
And SConf doc changes
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diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py b/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py index dd93269..d6a70ec 100644 --- a/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py +++ b/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py @@ -2,14 +2,13 @@ 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. +In other words, SConf allows to run tests on the build machine to detect +capabilities of system and do some things based on result: generate config +files, header files for C/C++, update variables in environment. + +Tests on the build system can detect if compiler sees header files, if +libraries are installed, if some command line options are supported etc. + """ # |