Stephan Beal wrote: > Another suggestion nobody has made yet: jam. It can be distributed in > static-binary form directly with the source tree (i've seen this done in a > couple projects, and i know it can build on some rather obscure systems). i > can't personally speak for jam's usability - read about it but never used it > myself.
I use Jam in my cross-system project, but I don't like the default Jambase, and completely re-wrote it to suite my ideas of how a build system should work. I rather like Jam itself since it's quite flexible and works well on the systems I use if for, with very few system specific cases in the Jamfiles, but (not surprisingly) people who want to build my software complain about not using a "standard" system like AutoTools, even though such systems aren't suitable for MSWin/VC++ type environments. The bottom line is that it does make everyone equal - they all have to install/compile Jam first! (Jam is available on some Linux systems as a standard package.) [ My experience with CMake hasn't endeared it to me. AutoTools is pretty awful, and always seems to be breaking. QMake seems cleaner than most systems. I'm sticking with Jam for my code, as it's clean and I can now maintain it easily.] Graeme Gill. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
