There have been mentions that there are apparently some bugs with
regards to possible random build failures, so bumping after a few
years sounds like an OK thing to test/do.
With this option, the script will check that the expected waf version is
present, but will simply fail if it's not, rather than trying to
download it. This allows a package build script to avoid compile-time
network access but still ensure it's using the right waf version.
Apparently, just running ./waf and hoping that it will be run with a
Python interpreter doesn't necessarily work. The workaround is pretty
simple and reliable.
It seems like a good idea not to generate any additional network traffic
and wait times if we don't have to.
Also print the URL it's downloading from.
Note that if we require a newer waf release, there will be a problem.
Running ./bootstrap.py won't get the newest waf version anymore in case
the old version is in the source dir. Not sure how to handle this.
This commit adds a new build system based on waf. configure and Makefile
are deprecated effective immediately and someday in the future they will be
removed (they are still available by running ./old-configure).
You can find how the choice for waf came to be in `DOCS/waf-buildsystem.rst`.
TL;DR: we couldn't get the same level of abstraction and customization with
other build systems we tried (CMake and autotools).
For guidance on how to build the software now, take a look at README.md
and the cross compilation guide.
CREDITS:
This is a squash of ~250 commits. Some of them are not by me, so here is the
deserved attribution:
- @wm4 contributed some Windows fixes, renamed configure to old-configure
and contributed to the bootstrap script. Also, GNU/Linux testing.
- @lachs0r contributed some Windows fixes and the bootstrap script.
- @Nikoli contributed a lot of testing and discovered many bugs.
- @CrimsonVoid contributed changes to the bootstrap script.
Jan Ekström
Niklas Haas
Philip Sequeira
Akemi
wm4
Stefano Pigozzi
Martin Herkt
Timothy Gu
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