On 2/20/06, Kevin Ollivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > On Feb 20, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Justin Haygood wrote: > I'm interested in this for a GTK port of the WebKit system. > autoconf/automake is ugly, but it works, and we don't have a decent IDE. > > Just as a FYI, we use Bakefile (http://bakefile.sf.net) to generate the > wxWebCore project makefiles. Basically, you create an XML-based 'Bakefile', > then the Bakefile program uses that to generate just about any project > format you want, including MSVC, GNU make, autoconf/automake (i.e. > Makefile.in files), Borland, etc. (Format list is here: > http://bakefile.sourceforge.net/doc/html/rn01re01.html) > > This way you don't have to worry about keeping the makefiles in sync for all > ports, and you can move from a regular old makefile system to an autoconf > system fairly simply, probably with no work at all. > > Thanks, > > Kevin >
Hmm cool I'd be happy to switch to this no problem. I saw talk of this project is it checked in somewhere ? Mike > > On 2/20/06, Mike Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/20/06, Krzysztof Kowalczyk < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 2/20/06, Mike Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm working on upgrading the linux port now. For this I feel I really > > > > should use autoconf. > > > > Are there any strong feelings on adding autoconf support for > building. > > > > > > My personal experiences with build software with autoconf, even on > > > mainstream Linux distros (Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu) is negative which > > > means that I failed to build it more often than I succeded. Sometimes > > > autoconf version that I had was too old, sometimes too new, sometimes > > > depended m4 macros were not installed but most of the time I would > > > just get incomprehensible, impossible to debug error message. > > > > > > Autoconf is better than nothing but I would personally prefer a > > > hand-written Makefile. > > > > > > Common belief is that only autoconf/automake etc. is able to support > > > building under wide variety of Unixes but projects like e.g. ffmpeg > > > show that it's possible to write a makefile and a custom configure.sh > > > script that works. > > > > > Yes I agree that it could work using makefiles but I don't think thats > > and option > > for me right now since for now I'm the only one that seems to be working > on this > > and then only in my spare time. I don't think that spending a lot of > > time developing a > > make only build system is the best way to get the linux port in the > > mainstream to entice other developers to participate. I'd rather get > > it working under autoconf then maybe considering how butt ugly > > autoconf is Apple will allow the command line xcode tools to be > > ported to linux :) > > Or more likely replace it with a simple make based build system later. > > > > Mike > > > > > > > -- kjk > > > _______________________________________________ > > > webkit-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > webkit-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
