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

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

If I recall correctly actually Ion3 has used autotools for a while, but
this was reverted.

Personally I'm not a big fan. CMake indeed seems saner, but I'm not really
sure I'd like to add a dependency on CMake - our current regular make-based
system seems fairly usable.

Most build parameters can now be manipulated by either editing the
system-autodetect.mk file, adding your own local changes in system-local.mk,
or setting an environment variable. Even though that's not perfect and
could use further cleaning up, it seems reasonably user-friendly (though
perhaps inadequately documented) to me.


Arnout


On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Jeff Backus <jef...@gm...> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
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