On Jan 10 20:11:54, t...@theobuehler.org wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 08:03:49PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:
> > I am working on an update of libsndfile to 1.2.0.
> >
> > Sadly, I was not around for the 1.1.0 update (thank you Brad),
> > when apparently the decision was made to switch to the cmake build.
> > Is there a particular reason for that?
> >
> > Under https://github.com/libsndfile/libsndfile/releases
> > they provide a tar.gz (as just a tag really) without ./configure,
> > so to use that is to pull in autoreconf and automake etc. However,
> > there is also a tar.xz which provides ./configure; I propose to switch
> > back to the gnu ./configure build, considering the archivers/xzcat
> > dependency a lesser evil than the cmake dependency.
> >
> > Are there any advantages to the cmake build?
>
> I don't think there is a disadvantage to it. It's already done.
>
> -GH_TAGNAME= 1.1.0
> +GH_TAGNAME= 1.2.0
>
> make makesum
> make FETCH_PACKAGES=
Yes, I have that already; but I would like to get rid
of the cmake dependency, and the python dependency.
Jan
> and you should be ready to test (and see if you need to bump the shared
> library version, etc).
>
> > Are there any objections?
> >
> > Jan
> >
>
