From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Corallo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Abysmal state of GTK build Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:35:11 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83wnb1bt96.fsf@gnu.org> <87a67vuwmo.fsf@gnus.org> <41a702f1-60fb-65fb-3862-d198c46cd6e6@gmail.com> <87sflnqaub.fsf@gnus.org> <87a67vhtat.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2349"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 24 14:51:59 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oQprT-0000NO-1l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:51:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53844 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQprR-0005Ye-Ku for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33578) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQpbS-0004QY-FS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:52730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQpbQ-0007Si-JT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ma.sdf.org (ma.sdf.org [205.166.94.33]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 27OCZB02001473 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:35:11 GMT In-Reply-To: <87a67vhtat.fsf@telefonica.net> (=?utf-8?Q?=22=C3=93scar?= Fuentes"'s message of "Tue, 23 Aug 2022 17:29:46 +0200") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=akrl@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294005 Archived-At: =C3=93scar Fuentes writes: > Lars Ingebrigtsen writes: > >> I wonder whether anybody has looked into switching to a different build >> system? > > Long time ago I volunteered to create a CMake-based build system and > even experimented a bit to the point of dumping emacs. Almost all of the > work consisted on implementing the platform checks. > > CMake has the advantage of supporting multiple "backends" for the build > phase, and `ninja' provides a significant speed-up over `make' on large > projects. Using ninja would translate into an hard dependency on python and I don't think this is acceptable. Also I'm not really sure ninja is faster than make. BR Andrea