Hi all,
well, scons is far more powerful than make ... but the way you build your externals is you choice ... carmen worked on a scons build system for externals ... there is also the external build system in ./externals/build using make ... but that has some problems, too ...
I'd like to add that the flext build system can be used to build non-flext-externals too, as long as external dependencies are not too complicated. The only thing needed is the package.txt file in the project folder.
best greetings, Thomas