On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Christian Hergert <christ...@hergert.me> wrote:
> and Gtk+ is > one of the most portable pieces of software in our ecosystem. > if this true, and that is debatable, then it is mostly because Gtk+ delegates so much to other libraries. When you look at the entire stack required to build and use Gtk+ on a platform, it is quite a huge undertaking. Building this stack for a non-*nix platform is intimidating and difficult and autotools is off little or no help with the issues. > > Making sure that waf runs properly on all of the target systems is going > to take some upfront work. Just because it uses Python doesn't mean it's > portable. Plenty of Python API's return different values based on the > host operating system. > > -- Christian > > > On 08/06/2014 01:01 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote: > > 2014-08-06 21:43 GMT+02:00 Colomban Wendling <lists....@herbesfolles.org > >: > >> Le 06/08/2014 21:30, Krzysztof Kosiński a écrit : > >>> [Waf] does not require silly lists of files to work > >> > >> If that refers to using globs in the build system files, don't. Glob > >> showed on many a situation to be the source of various build problems, > >> including, but not limited to, a file to be missing from the source tree > >> (which would not be easily noticeable and would work on the author's > >> setup), or unexpected files to be included in a build. > > > > I am not really convinced by this. > > > > 1. If there are any uncommitted files, version control will tell you > about this. > > 2. If you have 'unexpected files' in the source tree, you are doing > > something wrong. > > 3. Another common argument in favor of file lists is determining what > > to include in the tarball. This is only an issue because by default > > Autotools create a giant mess by putting generated files in the same > > directories as the sources (CMake does this as well). Waf always puts > > all generated files in a separate directory, so everything that's not > > in the build directory should be distributed. > > > >> Also, FWIW patterns can generally be used just fine in Autotools -- but > >> again, please, don't use them. > > > > Autotools can't correctly use patterns / wildcards, because it > > requires manually re-running automake whenever a file is added or > > deleted. > > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Wildcards.html > > Waf stores a database of files seen on last build and therefore > > doesn't suffer from this problem. > > > > Regards, Krzysztof > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-devel-list mailing list > > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list >
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