build-system: Add scons-build-system.

* guix/build-system/scons.scm: New file.
* guix/build/scons-build-system.scm: New file.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Register them.
* doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Add scons-build-system.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index b20848da5e..88764437a6 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Hartmut Goebel@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Maxim Cournoyer@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George Clemmer@*
-Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Andy Wingo
+Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Andy Wingo@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Arun Isaac
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -3868,6 +3869,19 @@ Python package is used to run the script can be specified with the
 @code{#:python} parameter.
 @end defvr
 
+@defvr {Scheme Variable} scons-build-system
+This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system scons)}.  It
+implements the build procedure used by the SCons software construction
+tool.  This build system runs @code{scons} to build the package,
+@code{scons test} to run tests, and then @code{scons install} to install
+the package.
+
+Additional flags to be passed to @code{scons} can be specified with the
+@code{#:scons-flags} parameter.  The version of Python used to run SCons
+can be specified by selecting the appropriate SCons package with the
+@code{#:scons} parameter.
+@end defvr
+
 @defvr {Scheme Variable} haskell-build-system
 This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system haskell)}.  It
 implements the Cabal build procedure used by Haskell packages, which