examples-v2 with waf build

[Chris Johns]

On 13/12/2013 9:57 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Congratulations! I want to make sure our GCI participants know how
> impressive their work has been so far.

I would like to add my congratulations and to thank the students and 
Gedare for an excellent result. Checking out and building the examples 
in 6 seconds for my Zync board is fantastic.

Chris

>
> --joel
>
> On Dec 12, 2013 12:29 PM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce that the examples-v2.git repository [1] now
> offers an example of how to build applications using the waf build
> system [2].
>
> The conversion effort from make to waf was conducted primarily by high
> school students participating in Google Code-In (GCI) [3] under my
> tutelage. Together, three GCI students (Chirayu Desai, Bryan Dunsmore,
> and Daniel Ramirez) contributed 40 commits totalling about 800 lines
> of code. Great work you three!
>
> While there is some learning curve, I have found waf to be simpler to
> use and faster to run than make. My hope is that some users can
> benefit from these examples to explore how the flexibility and
> performance of waf can be used to build their RTEMS applications.
>
> Sincerely,
> Gedare
>
> [1] examples-v2.git: http://git.rtems.org/examples-v2/
> [2] waf: http://code.google.com/p/waf/
> [3] Google Code-in: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/
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