On 18/08/17 07:43, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Ok, this is going to be controversial (or maybe not). > > I'd like to drop autotools and just use cmake as build system. > > Reasons: > * I don't use autotools so whenever something new happens i regularly forget > to try it works there (as proven last time with the nss includes) > * cmake is more portable (i.e. doesn't uses shell scripts) > * cmake gets releases more often > * cmake code is easier to read (for me) > * AFAICS Not even gnome (which was the "last" big autotools user) plans to > use autotools anymore > > > Only issues: > * We don't have gtk-doc support > * We don't have make dist-xz support (which i use for releases)
We need to update INSTALL to document building poppler with cmake. It needs to cover the various use cases users are likely to need such as enable/disable features, setting the install prefix, and setting compiler variables. > > But i'm sure both should be fairly easy to add, just never cared to do it > since the only times i use them are for releases. > > Comments? Does cmake support cross compilation? I use autotools cross compilation to build win32 builds. > > Cheers, > Albert > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
