Hi Rodolphe, > sorry to scratch an old itch but, shouldn't we take the opportunity of > opening OM2007.2 to think about the build system (esp. the qmake vs. > autotools thingy)? It's just that it makes me nervous for the project to > see 2 build systems available simultaneously... (Maybe I am just too > nervous.
Didn't you see me removing all .pro files? :) Well -- basically qmake support is gone. It was there mainly for my personal preference (I confess, I love qmake and prefer it to autotools). > There is one thing in particular that I'd like to see in SVN: the > ability to re-conf the whole tree automatically after update and build > it without going (too much) in the individual components updates. > If possible, I'd like that starting at the "target/" subtree (or even > higher!). > I don't think such a system has a chance of being adequately maintained > if the main developers do not elect a "primary" build system. See above, it's done. autotools is it. > As an example, personnally, I kept on maintaining such a thing for > myself alone for a few months (for OM-2007/ only), as I really find it > useful for tracking the tree. [1] I agree. This is very useful! > Of course OE/Mokomakefile etc. are available to do that too, but I do > most of the coding attempts on the PC itself in xoo as that's much > faster natively on the PC to remake the tree or install things. > I do not want to turn this into an autotools vs qmake debate but I > wonder if we can avoid to do some comparison now that both have been > tried for a while. Mickey, especially, do you think qmake can be up to > the task for being the primary build system for everything? Of course it could. Qmake can do everything autotools can do :D Anyways, since you already worked on that, you'd be welcome to add some top-level directory (src/target/OM-2007.2) autotools stuff that could build everything in one run. Would you like to do that? Cheers, Mickey. -- - Michael Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ ============================================================================ Software for the worlds' first truly open Free Software mobile phone
