Re: Switching from Autotools to CMake for core evolution products

[Adrián Pérez de Castro <aperez igalia com>]

Hello all,

Quoting Simon McVittie (2016-10-10 20:57:01)
> On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 12:45 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 12:57 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > > Can you propose what the necessary change would be to:
> > >
> > >  https://people.gnome.org/~walters/build-api/build-api.md
> >
> > Well that document is Autotools-specific. It would need to be written
> > from scratch for CMake following CMake conventions, and separately
> > again for Meson.
>
> That is exactly the opposite of the intention of Colin's build-api
> specification. The build-api is specifically written so that it
> *doesn't* require every project to be built with Autotools. If it
> assumed Autotools, it would be a much shorter document, starting with
> "you must use Autotools" :-)
>
> [...]

This is also my understanding. Also, adapting to the build-api is
trivial or easy enough in most cases. Or just planning for it, as
for example in:

  https://github.com/aperezdc/nss-altfiles/blob/master/configure
  https://github.com/aperezdc/nss-altfiles/blob/master/Makefile

(Only 111 and 75 lines, respectively. Zero autotools — only plain
POSIX sh and GNU Make.)

Cheers,

--
 ☛ Adrián

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