On 28 Jan 2015, at 18:31, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 28 Jan 2015, at 17:49, Richard Frith-Macdonald > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When tryiung to move people over to using clang and libobjc2, everyone seems >> to have problems with building libobjc2 because of its cmake dependency :-( > > People who can't manage: > > $ mkdir Build ; cd Build > $ cmake .. > $ ccmake . # Optional, only do if you want to enter the curses UI to tweak > configure options > $ make && make install > > Probably are going to struggle with a lot of other things too...
Heh ... everything is simple if/when it works. There are also people who struggle with: $ configure ... # Optional ... e.g. if you want to depend on stuff installed strangely $ make install >> I can certainly help with discussions and patch integration for gnustep-make >> to better use clang, but almost as useful would be building libobjc2 without >> requiring cmake. > > You are *far* more likely to find developers familiar with CMake than GNUstep > Make (or, in fact, pretty much any other build system). To put some real > numbers on this, in the FreeBSD ports tree there are 1018 ports that use > CMake, 90 that use GNUstep Make. For comparison, there are 399 that use > autotools. Different worlds ... on FreeBSD that's roughly 2:1 cmake to autotools, but I guess it looks different in non-bsd systems. I'm dealing with people using flavours of gnu/linux. I have no idea what typical ms-windows people do when faced with either autoconf or cmake ... A _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
