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Subject: Re: [poppler] RFC: Dropping autotools
From: Adrian Johnson <ajohnson () redneon ! com>
Date: 2017-08-19 11:58:28
Message-ID: 936aba55-0044-2f95-fff0-55130720e6ef () redneon ! com
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On 18/08/17 07:43, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Ok, this is going to be controversial (or maybe not).
>
> I'd like to drop autotools and just use cmake as build system.
>
> Reasons:
> * I don't use autotools so whenever something new happens i regularly forget
> to try it works there (as proven last time with the nss includes)
> * cmake is more portable (i.e. doesn't uses shell scripts)
> * cmake gets releases more often
> * cmake code is easier to read (for me)
> * AFAICS Not even gnome (which was the "last" big autotools user) plans to
> use autotools anymore
>
>
> Only issues:
> * We don't have gtk-doc support
> * We don't have make dist-xz support (which i use for releases)
We need to update INSTALL to document building poppler with cmake. It
needs to cover the various use cases users are likely to need such as
enable/disable features, setting the install prefix, and setting
compiler variables.
>
> But i'm sure both should be fairly easy to add, just never cared to do it
> since the only times i use them are for releases.
>
> Comments?
Does cmake support cross compilation? I use autotools cross compilation
to build win32 builds.
>
> Cheers,
> Albert
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