From kde-core-devel Mon Feb 14 16:44:41 2005 From: Alexander Neundorf Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:44:41 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development) Message-Id: <200502141744.41717.neundorf () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110839949419908 On Monday 14 February 2005 17:02, Guillaume Laurent wrote: > Stephan Kulow wrote: ... > > people away. Answer this: what is more scary: the current build system or > > the idea of throwing anything you know about the current build system > > away? > > The current build system is *way* scarier IMHO :-). Yes. Having a simpler build system is definitely a worthy goal in the long term. ... > As far as I know, scons is the only build system which also has > autoconf-like features. cmake (http://www.cmake.org) too. For testing purposes I could add cmake-support e.g. to kdebase/kfind/. This could live parallel to the Makefile.am, no problem there. The same could be done for scons, I guess. I still have one question: what is libtool good for ? Can we live without it ? (cmake doesn't use libtool). Bye Alex -- Work: alexander.neundorf@jenoptik.com - http://www.jenoptik-los.de Home: neundorf@kde.org - http://www.kde.org alex@neundorf.net - http://www.neundorf.net