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

[Jeff B. <jef...@gm...>]

Hi Arnout,

Interesting! It sounds like autoconf might be overkill then. In fiddling 
around a better version of the X11 paths patch I submitted earlier 
(original impetus for the thread), it dawned on me that I don't need to 
change anything. The X libraries and include files are already in the 
relevant paths for Fedora and have been for some time. So in reality, I 
don't even need to change X11_PREFIX since invalid paths are just 
ignored. Whoops! :)

Regards,
Jeff

On 01/19/2014 02:27 PM, 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 <http://system-autodetect.mk> file, adding your 
> own local changes in system-local.mk <http://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... 
> <mailto:jef...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>     Have we considered using autoconf to generate some of the .mk files,
>     such as modulelist.mk <http://modulelist.mk> and
>     system-autodetect.mk <http://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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