Re: In future, to replace autotools by cmake like KDE4 did?

From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date: Dec 7, 2007, 07:56 UTC
Message-ID: <7FAE3E89-4C56-47AE-8AD8-9191D6BB8FAC@holtmann.org>
In-Reply-To: <998d0e4a0712061810k18e6388jde9d7bc5bd006b57@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

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> The autotools ( automake + libtool + autoconf + ... ) generate many  
> big
> files that they have been slowing the building's computation and  
> growing
> enormously their cvs/svn/git/hg repositories because of generated  
> files.
>
> To see below interesting links:
> 1. http://dot.kde.org/1172083974/
> 2. http://sam.zoy.org/lectures/20050910-debian/
> 3. https://lwn.net/Articles/188693/
> 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Build_Tools
> 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Automake
>
> The benefits could be:
> * +40% faster in the KDE4 building vs KDE 3.5.6.
> * elimination of redundant and unnecesary generated files as those
>  from autotools.
> * smaller cvs/svn/git/hg repositories.

stop spreading this FUD. If you leave the auto-generated files from autotools in the source control repositories, then it is your fault. They are generated files and can always be generated. Hence putting them under revision control makes no sense and so don't do it. And more certain don't complain about it if you did.

Regards

Marcel