This appears to be an enormous PR. In fact, it mostly does one thing -- adds Makefiles that do everything that the SConstruct files do. Basically, I am disenchanted with scons. Seemed like a neat idea at the time, not that great after all.
I've tried to write the tree of Makefiles in such a way that changing compilers or changing operating systems should be fairly easy. It should be possible to do all the system dependent changes in the top-most Makefile and have those edits be exported down the tree.
The SConstruct files are not removed by this PR, so it is pretty unimpactful.
newville
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7 years ago
This appears to be an enormous PR. In fact, it mostly does one thing -- adds Makefiles that do everything that the SConstruct files do. Basically, I am disenchanted with scons. Seemed like a neat idea at the time, not that great after all.
I've tried to write the tree of Makefiles in such a way that changing compilers or changing operating systems should be fairly easy. It should be possible to do all the system dependent changes in the top-most Makefile and have those edits be exported down the tree.
The SConstruct files are not removed by this PR, so it is pretty unimpactful.