Re: r16624 - gnucash/trunk - Remove the spurious m4/ directory. Use macros/ instead.

2007-12-11 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 08:28 schrieb Andreas Köhler: (Actually, CMake might be an interesting alternative, especially because we do not use many convenience libraries but instead directly build a whole bunch of shared libraries. I just wanted to tell you that I am

Re: r16624 - gnucash/trunk - Remove the spurious m4/ directory. Use macros/ instead.

2007-12-11 Thread Martin Preuss
Hi, On Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007, Derek Atkins wrote: Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] What do you mean by nobody was able to understand? The configure script is mostly Shell script with a bunch of m4 convenience macros to implement pieces of shell script over and over.

Re: r16624 - gnucash/trunk - Remove the spurious m4/ directory. Use macros/ instead.

2007-12-11 Thread Graham Leggett
Christian Stimming [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The whole point of cmake is that it will perform all those platform-checks (more precisely: host and target checks) which used to be done by the autoconf-generated shell scripts which nobody was able to understand. But the price for this is that

Re: r16624 - gnucash/trunk - Remove the spurious m4/ directory. Use macros/ instead.

2007-12-11 Thread Graham Leggett
Christian Stimming wrote: I'm sorry, but the last part is some FUD that doesn't need to be redistributed any further. The KDE project explicitly states that already very early into the migration to cmake, it built on more platforms than it ever did with autotools. What kind of adoption does

Re: r16624 - gnucash/trunk - Remove the spurious m4/ directory. Use macros/ instead.

2007-12-10 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi Christian, On the other hand, all the autotools are *so* web1.0, we shouldn't bother any more than necessary, which is what your patch did correctly. (Actually, CMake might be an interesting alternative, especially because we do not use many convenience libraries but instead directly

Re: r16624 - gnucash/trunk - Remove the spurious m4/ directory. Use macros/ instead.

2007-12-10 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Andreas Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Christian, On the other hand, all the autotools are *so* web1.0, we shouldn't bother any more than necessary, which is what your patch did correctly. (Actually, CMake might be an interesting alternative, especially because we do not use many

Re: r16624 - gnucash/trunk - Remove the spurious m4/ directory. Use macros/ instead.

2007-12-10 Thread Andreas Köhler
Hi, Am Montag, den 10.12.2007, 18:39 -0500 schrieb Derek Atkins: Quoting Andreas Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (Actually, CMake might be an interesting alternative, especially because we do not use many convenience libraries but instead directly build a whole bunch of shared libraries.

Re: r16624 - gnucash/trunk - Remove the spurious m4/ directory. Use macros/ instead.

2007-12-09 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2007 02:26 schrieb Andreas Köhler: Author: andi5 Date: 2007-12-08 20:26:03 -0500 (Sat, 08 Dec 2007) New Revision: 16624 Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/16624 Removed: gnucash/trunk/m4/ Modified: gnucash/trunk/Makefile.am Log: Remove the spurious