Hi Guys, my 0.0001 canadian dollers are saying that the times I've used different autoconf like tools it always ends up in a big destress when SOMETHING is wrong in some weird file some weird place.. and due to bug in this and that version of autoconf it does'nt compile..
My experiance with cmake is alot bether. So I agree on useing Cmake :) - Atle * Seamus Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081015 11:38]: > Hi all, > > Personally I don't like auto* tools either. The tool set is difficult > to understand and users/developers just don't know what to run at what > stage (libtool, aclocal, automake, autoconf, configure, autoreconf, > autoheader etc...). Honestly I tried to learn and use the tool set at > some point, but I just gave up after a few failed attempts. I just > couldn't understand the tool chain properly. > > As for alternatives, there are quite a number of choices out there. > While CMake seems to be gaining some share, bakefile is another choice > (http://www.bakefile.org/index.html). I haven't used it before, so > really not sure whether it's good in practice or not. Anyway, just > throwing out the name as an option. > > > > Peter Lemenkov wrote: > > Hello All! > > > > 2008/10/15 Stefan Sayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> in the past we have spent way too much time maintaining the Makefiles, > >> and this also in a quite improper way. So I started adding cmake [1] > >> lists to have proper Makefiles (or other build system files) generated > >> by cmake. For now it is only the core and wav.so, but its a start... > >> > > > > Good news. The former (and present) buildsystem is hard-to-maintain > > (at least I think so) and hard-to-understand one. > > > > > >> Having played around with autoconf&automake, I'd say it is for my taste > >> just too complex to use it properly, and also I personally do not see > >> much advantage in libtool, but if anyone is more experienced with that > >> and likes to contribute something I would be happy as well. BTW if you > >> haven't read [2] its imo a good laugh... > >> > >> Stefan > >> > >> [1] http://www.cmake.org/ > >> [2] http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/889/ > >> > > > > Ther is also a flamewar about buildsystems in Fedora-Devel maillist > > right now. I dig it a little and found another one pretty interesting > > message about autotools: > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/94116/focus=94451 > > > > Just FYI. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Semsdev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/semsdev _______________________________________________ Semsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/semsdev
