to summarize reasons to kick nan-makefiles. - people downloading the source will see a makefile and type "make" thinking they will get a build. (Make on linux is currently broken for me, apparently its broken on mac too). - threaded builds error out, make -j6 quits almost instantly (lots of people have multi-cpus these days). - its slow - no active developers use it (afaik) - it blocks cmake's in source builds. - its Unix only, where CMake & SCons are cross platform.
For those who find the cmake's makefiles too verbose. ./build_files/cmake/example_scripts/make_quiet.sh For those who used 'make quicky' ./build_files/cmake/example_scripts/make_quicky.py - Campbell On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Aurel W. <aure...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > some might say, that more available ways for building blender, might > solve some problems on unusual platforms and systems. I currently use > blender on rather strange systems (like clusters), very old enterprise > linux distributions, etc. > > But I would have never made use of makefiles, even when i run into > problems with cmake or scons. I can't think of any important reasons, > not to maintain them any longer. > > However, having some choices when it comes to the build system is > great. So at the moment it would be great to still maintain cmake and > also scons and not to support just a single one. > > aurel > > > On 16 January 2011 19:51, Ton Roosendaal <t...@blender.org> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I already gave up on Makefiles for OSX a month ago or so... it was >> giving me inpredictable instable builds, and trying to figure out why >> I gave up after a day. >> >> It seems to me it's still used by a couple of people here. I'd like to >> know if there's - apart from personal taste - there's important >> reasons to keep supporting it? The system is close to collapse under >> its own weight, seems to me. :) >> >> Let me confirm that switching to CMake was painless and quick and it >> builds faster than ever. I'm not totally happy with the noisy colorful >> prints of cmake, but I'm quite sure that's a matter of time to get >> solved too. >> >> Obviously; if we remove makefiles from svn, it'll allow "in source" >> builds for cmake. >> >> -Ton- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Ton Roosendaal Blender Foundation t...@blender.org www.blender.org >> Blender Institute Entrepotdok 57A 1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers