Universal binary support in scons on mac

[thelusiv]

alex25, we've been installing VDrift to /usr/share/games/vdrift/bin and data to /usr/share/games/vdrift/data for a long time now, at least two versions back. The reason is that BinReloc can find the data easily this way. Why depend on BinReloc? In the case of autopackage (our main package format) the user has the option to install system wide by giving the root pass or in their home directory. The game should be able to find its data relative to the binary's directory no matter where it is.

Also it makes it simple to move or remove the game - only one directory needs to be removed. As bugsyv mentioned, you can always specify different directories when running scons, if you don't need these features.

Also, we have had an option to turn off saving of scons options for a while too. This is the cache option. It is primarily used for packaging, for instance when we make autopackages, there are a bunch of options passed to scons but we don't want them to be remembered since the developer has his own set of options saved and wants to use those most of the time. So just run

Code:

scons cache=0

plus whatever other options you'd like it to use, and that's all you have to do.

If you're a make fan, you can still use that. Just write a Makefile with something like this in it:

Code:

all:
           scons option=0 otheroption=1 stuff=blah

Of course, this is more or less the same as using scons with the options you want once, and then just running "scons" the next time and letting it remember your previous options. You'll also find that if you don't use the cache=0 option, SCons writes your options to a file called "vdrift.conf", which you can edit by hand to change the values that have been saved.

For more info on the options scons allows you to set for building VDrift, you can run

Code:

scons -h

I'd really appreciate it if you tell me if the things there make sense. Maybe the help could be better.