Re: [Notion-devel] Have we ever discussed using autoconf?

[Josef 'J. S. <je...@jo...>]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:51:48PM -0500, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 04:00:28PM -0500, Jeff Backus wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > Have we considered using autoconf to generate some of the .mk files, 
> > such as modulelist.mk and system-autodetect.mk? With the requirement 
> > that the user be able to override various things like version of lua 
> > used or locations of various libraries, it seems to me like being able 
> > to do "./configure --uselua51" or whatever might be more user-friendly 
> > than editing files.
> 
> I don't remember.  I would however strongly suggest something other than
> autotools.  Personally, I much prefer CMake [1].  While it is far from
> perfect, it is way saner than autotools.

So, for what it's worth, I started playing with converting the notion repo
to use cmake.  We'll see how it goes :)

Jeff.

> (different) Jeff.
> 
> [1] http://www.cmake.org/
> 
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