> On 18 Aug 2018, at 17:36, Andrew Pinski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 3:38 AM Damjan Marion via Lists.Fd.Io
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> Feedback, issue reports and contributions to get CMake be a full replacement
>> for autotools are welcome.
>
> I think this is backwards. CMake is worse than the autotools when it
> comes to build systems maintaince and debugging.
Unless you have some data points, it is just another opinion.
My (another) opinion is that autotools is one of ugliest piece of software
I had to deal with, and it is extremely hard to maintain and debug.
Beside that it is damn slow…
To support my opinion with some data points:
Clean VPP build (with cache cleared) with make takes 14 seconds, same thing
with autotools takes 54 seconds.
Please note that we definitely don’t need another autotools vs cmake discussion
here.
If you are able to show same speed and simplicity with autotools in this
project, I will be more than happy to take into your patch and re-consider use
of cmake.
> Can someone explain to me the benifit to cmake over autotools?
> Because I see none.
Speed, much simpler configs, specially for people who just need to add new
plugin into tree, embedded test and packaging.
—
Damjan
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