From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniele Nicolodi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: CHECK_STRUCTS/dmpstruct.h mechanism is broken. Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 11:02:11 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20190228202146.GC4686@ACM> <20190228205955.GD4686@ACM> <20190410162203.GA4009@ACM> <9809d5ce-c1c4-48e9-6dac-489431b34067@cs.ucla.edu> <671ba8dd-894b-5698-d162-8901b1098b9a@cs.ucla.edu> <87v9zkqptq.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <235a7acf-866c-d9af-6762-dbed24ffa383@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="235512"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 12 19:07:31 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hEzeF-000yxA-2B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 19:07:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEzeD-0004CQ-Ag for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:07:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEzZJ-0008ND-H0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:02:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEzZH-00008y-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:02:25 -0400 Original-Received: from zed.grinta.net ([109.74.203.128]:43970) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hEzZG-0008JH-DK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 13:02:23 -0400 Original-Received: from 688dnmac.campus.nist.gov (unknown [132.163.81.39]) (Authenticated sender: daniele) by zed.grinta.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 046B8E055C for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 17:02:13 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=grinta.net; s=mail; t=1555088534; bh=To3n61PjCxk7YzI8RBcLPA8BieiOhC5BdOHfhxfacNk=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=bMDtfKsJkKdAzQMao7wr/qY7VmgkMZRDowsw5deW0VYjKlhZt6mA6JU4G7o546Ltn +2jLGEiGIiy1ga0IKLFgafN5Rarrb+NUs36wOHifvethLkCHufeOxpvZgD6cyKi86g P8lK4JSmQhUhb/GeVJhjCsx/ln8xRYdnRdo6OtQg= In-Reply-To: <235a7acf-866c-d9af-6762-dbed24ffa383@cs.ucla.edu> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 109.74.203.128 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:235356 Archived-At: On 11-04-2019 16:44, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 4/11/19 12:55 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> Yes, it has no autoconf, but >> that's been replaced with the configure step from waf, which has exactly >> one person you can ask if something doesn't work the way you think it >> should. > > Yes, I considered waf too (coincidentally I was just talking to a > student today about waf for one of his projects!). I think meson http://mesonbuild.com/ is a better tool than waf. It is also implemented in Python but it uses a DSL for the build definition making his syntax much more regular. Meson is gaining a lot of traction and the development is very active (and upstream is not hostile to packaging in distributions). However, I haven't used it for anything very complex yet. Cheers, Dan