Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pjotr Prins) writes:
> What is the preferred autoconf replacement with NIX expressions at > this point - scons or cmake? I can see cmake is well supported and > used in KDE for one, but the use of scons looks less obvious in > applications/networking/p2p/ldcpp/1.0.1.nix. What are the > implications for cross-architecture building? FWIW, I think Nix would have been next-to-impossible without the infrastructure brought by `configure', namely all the `--prefix' and `--XXXdir' switches, which make Autoconf-based packages easily installable anywhere on the file system. Packaging software that uses home-made build systems usually proves to be much less automatic and more painful because of this. I think CMake supports similar configure-time options. I don't know whether SCons does. If you're familiar with Automake, you might want to look at Quagmire, a promising Automake replacement which also provides `configure'-like features: http://code.google.com/p/quagmire/ . Thanks, Ludovic. _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
