2010/7/22 john cliff <john.cliff@...400...>:
+1 why are we talking about it like its a hybrid system? its one that works very well on win, and one seperate one that people barely seem to understand but manage to get to work most of the time on linux. btool makes life ridiculously easy on win. leave it the hell alone.
It only works well because the configuration on Windows is effectively fixed. It doesn't do any configure checks and doesn't know how to generate config.h, because on Windows it is written by hand and stored in build.xml.
This approach will not work well on Linux or other Unixes, because the variability of system configuration is much greater than on Windows, and we do not control the versions of compiler, libraries, etc. used by Inkscape. I don't think it's feasible to use btool on anything else than Windows.
Regards, Krzysztof