Re: [PATCH] Add 'waf-build-system'.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> attached is a patch to add the waf build system.  Although waf is called
> a meta build system, most applications that I've encountered so far (all
> related to audio) have the standard build phases as the GNU build
> system.
>
> The waf build system is embarrassingly similar to the Python build
> system.  Essentially, the phases are run by executing
>
>     python waf $PHASE
>
> instead of
>
>     python setup.py $PHASE
>
> Unlike the Python build system, however, there is a configure phase, and
> not everything important happens during the install phase.

OK.  Did you find it more appropriate to extend ‘gnu-build-system’
rather than ‘python-build-system’?

> From adc52a74fb12943fd77c97bf75a2092e839f9024 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:39:03 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Add 'waf-build-system'.
>
> * guix/build-system/waf.scm, guix/build/waf-build-system.scm: New files.
> * Makefile.am (MODULES): Add them.

Could you add a few lines to guix.texi, under “Build Systems”?  Other
than that this looks good to me.

Thank you,
Ludo’.