From kde-core-devel  Tue Jun 14 00:37:51 2005
From: Michael Pyne <pynm0001 () comcast ! net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:37:51 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Build system for KDE4
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On Monday 13 June 2005 07:24, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> yes auto* kind of sucks. can you name one build system which sucks
> less ?

I once used a plain 'ol Makefile with a Perl script to install icons for my=
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program abakus.  It sucked less. :P

unsermake sucks much much much less, and could be a key part of a proposed=
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build system.

SCons/bksys is much much better than autotools for the build framework.  Th=
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configure script aspect is handled poorly by SCons at this point though, so=
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we'd have to either fix it or replace it.  Any replacement we write would=20
likely suck 100x less than autoconf at this point.

checking sizeof(autoconf_suck)...   32768K

I'm sick and tired of having to suffer through all the bloated layers of=20
autoconf, automake and libtool just so that someone can fail to build KDE o=
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UnixWare somewhere.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne

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