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Re: Multi-platform build system
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Multi-platform build system |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:57:06 +0900 |
Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:
>> Time ago I volunteered to write a CMake [1] build spec for Emacs. It was
>> considered unnecessary by the people who does most of the work on the
>> current build systems.
>
> IIRC, it was also unacceptable, because the user would need CMake to
> build Emacs, as opposed to just generating makefiles than can be
> packed into the tarball. Is that so, or am I misremembering?
That is so ... cmake, like most build-systems, requires itself to be
installed for the builder, not just the packager; the autotools are
fairly unique in _not_ requiring this [though I have seen some other
systems that kinda do it].
[Another somewhat rare property of autoconf is the emphasis on
feature-_testing_ instead of version/system-name-driven configuration;
this may be less useful on windows, which seems to have a smaller
amount of variability, but of course it's invaluable on unixy
systems...]
-Miles
--
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- Re: Multi-platform build system, (continued)
- Re: Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS), Juanma Barranquero, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS), Christoph Scholtes, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS), Juanma Barranquero, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system, Óscar Fuentes, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system, Óscar Fuentes, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system, Óscar Fuentes, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Multi-platform build system, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system, Miles Bader, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system, Juanma Barranquero, 2011/10/13
- Re: Multi-platform build system, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/10/14
- Re: Multi-platform build system, Stefan Monnier, 2011/10/14
- Re: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS (was: Emacs pretest 24.0.90), Eli Zaretskii, 2011/10/14
Re: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS, Miles Bader, 2011/10/13