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

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

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 08:27:24PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> 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.

I wish building notion was less...manual.  Every time I need to build it
(which isn't all that often), I spend 10 minutes trying to figure out which
variables I need to tweak to make it build on my OpenIndiana systems.  I
feel like some of this can be done automatically.

Anyway, I'm done for the day trying to get notion cmake-ified.  If anyone is
interested, here's what I have right now:

$ git pull git://repo.or.cz/notion/jeffpc.git cmake

or patch:

http://repo.or.cz/w/notion/jeffpc.git/patch/9bea65da8867700b9b00905fb962d398711782cc

There are still plenty of things to do (see commit message).  Everything
converted so far builds.  I didn't try running any of the produced binaries.

Jeff.

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