Am Freitag, 16. Juni 2006 23:42 schrieb Christian Ohm:
> On Friday, 16 June 2006 at 22:33, Dennis Schridde wrote:
> > > Damn, still no agreement, but a whole new system I haven't even heard
> > > of before...
> The question is: What about if
> they come back? Will they accept a new system?
Dunno...
Will they come back?

> > Just got a complete dislike of autotools after trying to modify the
> > configure.ac and this svn-revision inclusion stuff... :(
>
> Oh, I could live perfectly without autoconf, but there is no established
> alternative (the pragmatism again).
>
> But there are two features that are not widely used but which people
> might find useful in autoconf: Cross-compiling, and the ability to
> use a build directory different from the source tree. That's mainly
> useful in cross-compiling, you can have the builds for different
> architectures in different directories, without the need to copy the
> whole source tree. All other uses are quite obscure, the only one I can
> think of right now is having the source tree on a read-only medium.
waf uses a build dir by default, I even think this is required (but you could 
set the build dir to the source dir).
With that waf also supports a read-only source tree.
What I don't exactly know is if it supports cross-compiling.
There is currently no tool for that, but I think you could try to implement 
it. (Using uname -m on Linux, dunno on MinGW)

> That leaves the question of cross-compiling: Do we need it? Does waf
> support it (it didn't look like it did)? It's not essential, but might
> be useful: to compile a Windows version on Linux, or a 32-bit version on
> a 64-bit system.
At least we could add a configure switch "--x86_64" or something.

--Dennis

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