Re: Getting rid of build tools

[Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:33:47PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
> 
> > I am not saying we don't need build tools altogether - I'll still use
> > make and rake, for example. But we certainly don't need all the
> > baggage that comes with the current set of 'complex' Makefile
> > generation tools that are automake and cmake.
> 
> The main purpose of Automake is to generate makefiles that (1) contain a
> lot of non-trivial rules that Make alone does not provide, such as
> dependency tracking for C source and headers, and (2) to generate the
> rules specified in the GNU Coding Standards that and users have come to
> expect:
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html
> 
> I think this remains relevant.

Sure, but with less targets, thanks to GNU Guix, we could get a much
simpler system. Automake and cmake make my head hurt every time I deal
with them.

Pj.
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