On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:15:23PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi Stefan,
I beleive that the best approach would be to split the York build system into separate build systems for yhc/yhi/etc. Yhi, being a pure C program, can use a system designed for pure C, such as autotools.
Which doesn't really like Windows, so isn't really an option...
Ah yes. Windows is a good reason to pick scons over autotools.
Yhc, being pure Haskell, would be a much better fit for Cabal than the York toolchain currently is considered as a whole.
The intention is to initially make Yhc compile with Cabal, and have "scons build yhc" just fork off Cabal to do the work. Gradually it would be nice to move more bits into Cabal.
The York tools are very loosely coupled because of the documented IR. it seems kinda silly to force a common build system on them... Stefan