<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a52b12da-209b-451f-a9b4-cab154e80718/6B8C9A43-670F-416A-89C3-FF97C5CD8A84/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://code.google.com/p/waf/" href="http://code.google.com/p/waf/" style="font-size: 11px;">code.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://code.google.com/p/waf/"><P>Waf is a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications. It is a replacement for other tools such as Autotools, Scons, CMake or Ant. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://code.google.com/p/waf/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A id="Features"><STRONG>Easy to use</STRONG>: Waf configuration files are written in </A><A rel="nofollow" href="http://python.org/">Python</A> which is mainstream scripting language </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://code.google.com/p/waf/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Easy to install and to distribute</STRONG>: Waf fits entirely in a single <STRONG>100KB</STRONG> <A rel="nofollow" href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php">redistributable</A> file which does not require any installation whatsoever </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://code.google.com/p/waf/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Portable</STRONG>: Waf only depends on Python which is ported onto most operating systems </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://code.google.com/p/waf/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><STRONG>Fast</STRONG>: Waf is much faster than autotools. For example in one a complete build (autogen.sh, make, make install) of <A rel="nofollow" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/cheese">Cheese</A> just takes 6.7 seconds vs 22.2 seconds using autotools. Waf can also run multiple jobs in parallel (the -j command line option), and provides a cache for not recompiling the files all over again (like ccache). </LI></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6B8C9A43-670F-416A-89C3-FF97C5CD8A84/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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