In Python sets are unordered, so iterating them after converting to a list
always leads to different results. The code iterated on them to collect all
the flags to pass to the compiler, and since the order of the flags changed,
waf would rebuild all of the C files. Seems like in Python 2 this worked as
expected by pure chance.
This commit stores the sets as lists, and converts them to sets when the set
operations are needed.
Fixes#363
Apparently some packaging systems (homebrew does this for example) change
`sys.path` before they run any Python script to ensure that only the correct
Python modules can be loadable.
We need to make sure cwd is in `sys.path` since we need to load
`wscript_build.py` from there.
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.
