Universal binary support in scons on mac

[bugsyv]

actually, this is exactly one of the reasons i hate scons: running it with extra options shouldn't really be persistent across options. i am sure at some point i'll forget i ran scons with the extra options and then i'll try to figure out, in vain, why it is installing things where it does. to each its own, i guess.

Persisting the options is an optional feature of scons and was put in there deliberately by this project. Though I do see what you mean... perhaps there should be an option to persist the options run it once like so

Code:

$scons bindir=bin save=1

And henceforth your bindir is "bin" but if you later do a build with "release=1" for a one-off test, then it won't be remembered.

And scons doesn't really replace makefiles... it replaces autoconf and the resulting makefiles. But there seems to be 101 different build systems out there so none is perfect ( otherwise everyone would be using it )