On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 19:51 +0100, Ton Roosendaal wrote: > Hi all, > > I already gave up on Makefiles for OSX a month ago or so... it was > giving me inpredictable instable builds, and trying to figure out why > I gave up after a day.
On OS X the Makefiles have troubles finding the right (external) libraries in lib/ and the proper compiler/linker flags, maybe that's what's causing the instabilities. I've been experimenting a bit with a fix for that and didn't notice any problems. > > It seems to me it's still used by a couple of people here. I'd like to > know if there's - apart from personal taste - there's important > reasons to keep supporting it? The system is close to collapse under > its own weight, seems to me. :) > > Let me confirm that switching to CMake was painless and quick and it > builds faster than ever. I'm not totally happy with the noisy colorful > prints of cmake, but I'm quite sure that's a matter of time to get > solved too. > > Obviously; if we remove makefiles from svn, it'll allow "in source" > builds for cmake. > I've tried using cmake on Irix briefly and it failed building, I guess this was because it was trying to link against the system libraries instead of the much more recent libs from svn. If that can be fixed or configured easily, I wouldn't mind switching to cmake, especially as this would allow doing parallel builds. greetings, stefan _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
