[Scons-dev] Support for versioned shared libraries is nowhere near fixed

[Bill Deegan]

Had a discussion with ESR on IRC and added the following bug as the
(first?) action item to resolve this:
http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3002

-Bill

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 10:17 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:

> Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>:
> > The reason for having it as an Environment variable is that is the
> > "scons way",  Builder's have source and target, all other arguments
> > are used to create an OverrideEnvironment().
>
> Is this "way" documented anywhere outside the source?
>
> There's a gap between the man page and the wiki that's a problem.  The man
> page is very hieratic.  It assumes that the reader already knows the
> context
> for all the primitives. The wiki talks a lot about edge cases and
> extensions.
>
> What's missing, I think, is worked examples of complex features like this
> one.
> --
>                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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