On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:05:33AM -0500, DRC wrote: > I am a GNU Make hacker, so I personally use raw GNU Makefile semantics > for VirtualGL and other projects I do, but I am a bit of a nut in that > regard. :) In terms of automated Makefile generators, CMake is a much > more elegant solution than automake IMHO.
Well, GNU autotools sometimes look quite strange but it is one of two ways (yes, the second one is cmake) how create really portable project. If you write your own Makefiles it is always far more ugly than configure.ac & Makefile.ams. > However, I'm not proposing for TigerVNC to do either of the above. I > just want to use a version of automake/autoconf that is more compatible > with Enterprise Linux platforms. My users are mostly standardized on > Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5 with a few on SuSE 9 & 10 and Ubuntu 7 & > 8. These are mostly large corporations and institutions that will > refuse to change platforms until they absolutely cannot get support for > it anymore. Thus, I need to build on the "lowest common denominator" > platform to ensure that I can distribute one binary that works for everyone. > Support for old autotools is drawback. I think we should check-in autogenerated files. Adam -- Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-devel mailing list Tigervnc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-devel
