> On May 11, 2019, at 08:36, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2019-05-11 08:27 -0500, William Harrington wrote: >>> On May 11, 2019, at 02:33, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev < >>> >> >> Greetings, >> >> Is it possible that someone will go directly to netlibs and filter back to a >> previous package? How about if they want a program that isn't in BLFS that >> needs cmake and the deps. I don't understand the idea that cmake isn't >> needed. >> Seems like it should be as a recommended or optional dep when going thru >> BLFS. >> Name a distro that doesn't have cmake. > > Yes it is needed. Nobody wants to remove it from the book. But if a package > *can* be built with autotools or meson, why should we build it with cmake and > introduce a hard dependency?
Because it is in transition. Eventually autotools won't be needed. > -- > Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> > School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
