Re: build systems

[Alp Toker <alp atoker com>]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> > - Are the current drawbacks of using autotools in GNOME so so so
> > annoying that it would be really worth the effort of migrating to
> > something else?
>
> Well, I just copy and paste chunks of code in configure.ac from other
> projects, changing the names of constants where required. I really don't
> understand how this stuff all works. It's so compicated and legacy bodge
> over lagacy bodge. It's slow to build and smatters small script files
> all over my source tree - and when it blows up i've not got any idea how
> to debug it or fix things.

Hate to be devil's advocate here but maybe you'd be better equipped to 
fix your build system if you read the documentation instead of blindly 
copying chunks of configure.ac out of other projects and hoping it works?

Seriously.