On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macie...@intel.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:11:53 PDT Gregg Reynolds wrote:
>> > I'm still trying to understand, what is so wrong with CMake that both
>> > IoTivity and AllJoyn are using Scons?
>>
>> No idea.  All I know is that at some point a switch was made to Scons. I'm
>> not even sure what was used before that, probably autotools/make, but I
>> don't know.
>
> It was manually-maintained Makefiles.
>
> The choice to use Scons was made by the developer who volunteered to rewrite
> the Makefiles. Since there was no one else volunteering to do the work, we let
> the developer use what he knew best.

OK. I see.

What about detecting external libs via pkg-config for Linux and if not
found then use in-tree copies? Current approauch makes it hard to
cross-compile in Buildroot and co, that actually provide all necessary
libraries.

Yegor
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