On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Jose Fonseca <jfons...@vmware.com> wrote: > Johannes Obermayr's recent patch series remind me of one thing I've been > planning to ask here for quite some time: > > Would anybody oppose dropping automake build system in mesademos for just > cmake ? > > On Mesa there is rationale behind the two different build systems (automake > and scons), but for mesademos, there's nothing that automake can do that > can't be made with cmake; both generate makefiles giving a similar experience > to Linux/Unix developers; cmake is already exclusively used in piglit, so > there's substantial expertise/familiarity on mesa developers community > already; and cmake has the advantage over automake of supporting native > Windows/MSVC builds. > > So I really don't think there's any need for automake on mesademos anymore. > > I know mesademo's cmake build system does not yet build some apps/demos, but > this is some thing that I could easily and gladly fix if we agreed on > deprecating automake over cmake on mesademos.
I've no real objections to it but the big difference between piglit and mesa-demos is that distros package mesa-demos, nobody packages piglit really and there is little reason to. so dropping automake means all the downstream consumers have to redo their packaging to use cmake which can be a bit painful. Though I'm sure fedora has lots of simple cmake things to steal packaging info from. Dave. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
