On Tue 19 Jul 2016 at 13:43:08 -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 02:51:02AM -0700 I heard the voice of > Greg A. Woods, and lo! it spake thus: > > I don't like GNU Autotools so much, but it's a billion times better > > than CMake, > > >From the dev side, I contest the crap out of that. Making an > autotools setup that does what we're doing with cmake would be a lot > of work, and I'd put a heavy burden of proof (including certification > of mental stability) on anybody claiming the result would be > fractionally as manageable.
For another project which had an old-fashioned configuration system (it consisted of choosing the correct system directory with the right makefile in it). I wanted to have something that did some system introspection but not the full GNU autotools since that is a bit too much complexity for what I had in mind. So it turned out to be possible to just use autoconf and avoid automake. It helped that there was already a good base Makefile where configuring it could easily be done by setting a bunch of variables. So I simply generate some prefix to the (mostly) the original Makefile with the right substitutions. See https://github.com/Rhialto/klh10/blob/master/configure.ac if you like. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly.
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