Re: [Vala] Vala autoconf macro

[Arto Karppinen <arto karppinen mail suomi net>]

Martin (OPENGeoMap) wrote:
> hi:
> > This way, you can distribute a source tarball that does not depend
> > upon valac, but can use it if it is available and recent enough.  If
> > this has already been done elsewhere better, please let me know!  :)
> >
> >   
> what about waf???
> http://code.google.com/p/waf/
>
> Real cross compilation between windows and linux for VALA, C, C+, c#, D,...

From Waf homepage:

    Portable: Waf only depends on Python which is ported onto most
    operating systems.


> I think it´s the time to kill autotools(=autohell)!!!!

I agree that autotools is a difficult and obscure system that works by 
dark magic. Unfortunately, autotools does work everywhere, not just in 
most places, which is why it gets my vote.

Besides, autotools is the defacto build system for G* things, so i think 
vala should use it.

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Arto Karppinen
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