On Sunday 26 October 2008, Robert Schwebel wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:06:12PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 26 October 2008, Robert Schwebel wrote: > > > So IMHO, there are only two sane solutions: > > > > > > * autotools > > > * kbuild > > > > > > They have enough critical mass in the community that they really do > > > solve people's problems. > > > > i think those serve different markets. autoconf is for easily > > discovering all the weird host idiosyncrasies while kbuild is for people > > to easily customize a build of something. we arent talking about making > > people manually select test suites, just to have the tests be able to > > figure out a bit of what will and wont compile. > > Well, part of the recent discussion was also about making tests for > example architecture dependend; this could also be achieved with kbuild.
i think the point of that was to try and address this ifdef mess we have now. which autoconf would replace. > However, autotools would be my very favourite. IMHO, there are a few > issues which have to be taken into account: > > - full autotools (autoconf+automake+libtool) is slow, compared to hand > written makefiles > > - autoconf-only may have issues, becuase the makefiles themselfs stay > handwritten in that case and thus may behave differently from what > people are used to i think the latter is the way to go. if we structure the makefiles simply enough (have autoconf output 1 file that the makefiles will all include), it shouldnt be a big deal. i'm also very keen on keeping the capability we have today: going into any subdir and having `make` work on an up-to-date system without any other overhead. -mike
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