On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 19:27:49 -0400
Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Steve Havelka <smh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is it necessary that it's autoconf? Or would you take a CMake-based build
> > script?
> ccmake is not installed by default on either my iMac nor my SuSE Linux
> desktop. So it a a non-starter.
>
> If you have a way other than autoconf to generate a universal build script
> that runs on any unix machine without special software installed, then that
> will be fine. CMake does not qualify because it is not installed by default
> on most unix boxes. I think autoconf is probably going to be the only
> general-purpose solution, but I am open to alternatives if you have them.
I feel compelled to point out that "installed by default on most unix
boxes" isn't a realistic requirement. I'd say it eliminates autoconf
because it isn't installed by default on any of *my* Unix boxes (all
running OpenSolaris or FreeBSD). For that matter, a C compiler isn't
"installed by default" on OpenSolaris or most of the GNU/Linux distros
I'm familiar with, so by that definition you can't build fossil
without "special software installed" on those systems.
For most unix and unix-like systems, a more appropriate requirement
would be "is available from the package system". I.e. - it's something
that can be trivially installed, without having to configure or build
or chase dependencies for it. Since Windows and OSX don't come with
package systems, that won't work for them, but having a binary build
available from the authors should meet the goal of being trivial to
install.
<mike
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