Le jeu. 30 avr. 2020 à 03:30, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodt...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:34 PM David Turner <da...@freetype.org> wrote: > > > > Starting a thread here to discuss potential build system improvements > for FreeType. > > > > The current FreeType 2 build system has many flaws. To its credit, it > was designed in a very different time, when things like CMake / Meson / > Ninja/ Maven / GN / Bazel didn't even exist, when Autotools was considered > the best system to configure your build (ah!), and GNU Make 3.81 was > considered new and bleeding edge, and didn't necessarily exist for all > platforms. I'm not even sure pkg-config was available on all Linux distros > until quite a long time. As I said ... very different times. > > Most serious projects I have encountered so far use ./configure; make. > It is the libtool that annoys me. They refused to implement > -fvisibiity=hidden when I asked. They said that libtool was current > when building shared libraries was hard, which is actually true. Let's > just get rid of libtool as whatever it does for us is quite minimal. > > As far as I understand, libtool exists because building shared libraries for ten different Unix-like system is a portability nightmare. On the other hand, building them for a standard Linux distribution, or OS X, is a well known problem, so we may consider keeping autotools/libtool as an escape hatch for esoteric systems that still exist, and use something simpler/better for Linux and OS X? > Alexei >
