On 5/11/19 11:51 AM, William Harrington via blfs-dev wrote:
On May 11, 2019, at 08:36, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 2019-05-11 08:27 -0500, William Harrington wrote:
On May 11, 2019, at 02:33, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev <
Greetings,
Is it possible that someone will go directly to netlibs and filter back to a
previous package? How about if they want a program that isn't in BLFS that
needs cmake and the deps. I don't understand the idea that cmake isn't needed.
Seems like it should be as a recommended or optional dep when going thru BLFS.
Name a distro that doesn't have cmake.
Yes it is needed. Nobody wants to remove it from the book. But if a package
*can* be built with autotools or meson, why should we build it with cmake and
introduce a hard dependency?
Because it is in transition. Eventually autotools won't be needed.
That's a long 'eventually'. I doubt that gnu projects, especially like
glibc or gcc, will change in the near to mid future.
-- Bruce
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