From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...)
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:29:52 -0400
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Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> He recently converted Battle for Wesnoth to use something called "scons" as
> its build system, and apparently the resulting make stuff was 1/17th the size
> of the original.

probably because scons has ~1/17th the functionality of autotools.
seriously, it's terrible.  funny you should mention it in a thread
about cross-compiling seeing as how it doesnt have a chance of
supporting it (has hard enough time supporting native builds).
-mike