[ggt-devel] SCons installation slow and messy

[<pa...@13...>]

I just performed an installation of GMTL 0.3.5 in a freshly created user'=
s
home directory, and the process took three full minutes--probably because
SCons was pooping .sconsign files throughout the user's *entire* home
directory.  I ran the GMTL build+install as follows:

   % scons install prefix=3D$HOME

Is it really necessary for SCons to do its MD5 summing over the entire
installation tree?  (I am assuming that SCons is doing this because of th=
e
'prefix' setting above and not just out of general confusion during the
build phase.)  For a sufficiently large directory tree, this wouild make
the GMTL build+install appear to hang for no obvious reason.  I can
definitely say that I have cancelled many a GMTL installation thinking
that SCons had gotten stuck on some step or another.

Lastly, I realize that this is really an SCons question and not a GMTL
question.  In my (limited) experience with SCons, it seems like SCons
usually does the right thing, and it's the SConstruct file that has the
problem.  If this is an SCons problem (feature?), then I will redirect my
discontent to their mailing list.

 -Patrick