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

[rekado <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> 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’?

The way I see it the waf-build-system is a descendant of the
gnu-build-system in that it has the same phases; it only uses a
different tool (namely the waf script).  The python-build-system on the
other hand concentrates everything in the install "phase".

The waf-build-system looks similar to the python-build-system only
because the waf script needs to be run with a python interpreter, and it
could be either version 2 or 3.  This is why I extended the
gnu-build-system (as a "parent") and imported the default-python
procedures from python-build-system (as a "cousin").

Does this make any sense?

>
>> 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.

I'll try and send an updated patch.

~~ Ricardo