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 _______________________________________________ iotivity-dev mailing list iotivity-dev@lists.iotivity.org https://lists.iotivity.org/mailman/listinfo/iotivity-dev