In my opinion, the advantage of autotools is that it can generate a
configure script that can be shipped with the source tarball, then any
one with the source can run the configure script when the system has a
POSIX shell and tools. If using CMake, meson, xmake, etc. the user will
first need to install the build tool to build the source.
I still hope to have one such build tool which can generate a configure
script, and have some better properties than autotools:
- implemented in a sane language (I don't like Perl)
- generate a single configure script for the whole project instead of
running configure on subprojects when running make
- support building with ninja
If CMake, meson, xmake or some other build system support generating a
POSIX shell configure script, I think it would be fine to use it to
replace autotools.
On 2022/9/11 22:29, Junk Trash via Gcc wrote:
Hi,
I want to get the opinions of GCC developers regarding adding CMake as a build
system for GCC. Is it something you would like, something you are neutral
about, or something you are strongly against?
Thanks for your valuable feedback!
Regards,
JT
