On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 11:01 +0100, Frederic Peters wrote: > Richard Hughes wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 00:32 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > > > In this case there is an easy solution. Convert a few GNOME projects > > > to the new build system and show the result. > > > > Good plan. I've got an old branch of gnome-power-manager building with > > waf, and I indend on having waf a build method for PackageKit in the > > next few days. Is there any hard and fast rule that says gnome projects > > _have_ to use autotools? > > Not any rule I know of; but using ./configure; make; make install (be > it with autotools or anything else) is quite useful to be integrated > in JHBuild modulesets. We don't use autotools, but it was a no brainer to make $ ./configure; make; make install be the API to call what we do use. The Makefile is like 3 lines and all it does is call ./build/the-real-build-program, and our setup system calls itself `configure` because that's a good name for it. AfC Sydney
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