Re: [Opensg-core] [OpenSG 2] Build system, options file name

[Dirk R. <di...@in...>]

	Hi Allen,

Allen Bierbaum wrote:
> 
> I see what you are both saying and I think there is a part of this that 
> I was not clear about.  There are two parts to variants.
> 
> 1. Providing a single location to inform the build and any scons-addons 
> options (boost, standard, etc) what "type" of build it is 
> (debug/optimized/hybrid, ia32, x64, etc)
 >
> 2. Make it possible for the build to have a "loop" in it that will build 
> multiple variants at the same time.
> 
> The second one ended up very difficult to do well and made the current 
> build more complex then needed.  That said though, 1 is still needed so 
> we can tell everything in the build what it should be doing.

Agreed.

> For example, Carsten showed:
> 
> scons type=optimized build_suffix=dbg64 compiler_options="-m64"
> 
> But if you run this command, how does the boost option know how to do 
> all the logic internally to select a library that can work against 
> optimized and is compiled x64?  This is the problem that is meant to be 
> solved by part 1 above.  Maybe I am making this more difficult then 
> needed though.  If you can find a way to get everything in the current 
> build and in scons-addons all working together in a simpler way, then I 
> am all for that. :)

Nope, I think that is still needed and useful, but when I was thinking of 
variants I meant 2.

	Dirk