You'll need to make a much better argument for scons. It would be hard to find something more cross-platforms than autotools. So far, none of these build problems with pd-devel have to do with Mac OS X. They have been autotools problems.
well, the autobuild system works fine on linux ... but getting it to run on several platforms with several autobuild versions is hell... and some build systems (e.g. msvc) are not supported at all ... in these terms, scons is superior to autobuild ...
anyway ... it seems, there won't be any binary packages for osx soon ...
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