On Jul 23 18:38:17, g...@greenie.muc.de wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 09:35:30AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > > Let's switch over to cmake as our official mechanism now... i.e. have > > travis, etc. use it in preference to configure. > > From a sysadmin perspective, I find cmake to be a major annoyance > (because it usually does not exist on systems where I want to install > packages, and if your platform is not "mainstream i386/amd64", there's > quite often no binary packages, so "go out and compile cmake" is it, > then... like, FreeBSD/Sparc64). > > I do understand that this is not for me to decide and that you're > fully free to ignore me, but I still wanted to say it so nobody can > say afterwards "hey, we announced this on the list and nobody spoke > up". > > (If you say "... use it in preference to configure" and configure stays > around as fallback, I shut up and be happy :-) )
From both a sysadmin and user perspective, I find the GNU autotools amd CMake a major annoyance. Would you please consider doing what e.g. http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/configure does? A simple, hand written shell script, with a set of obvious {test,compat}-*.c helpers. No dependency on anything, orders of multitude smaller and faster then a auto*-generated configure. Jan _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
