Re: Autoconf/Automake

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jun 14, 2006, 22:45 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606141538500.5498@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <1150324030.23268.12.camel@dv>

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> 
> Is there any interest in converting the build system used by git to
> Autoconf and Automake?  The ad-hoc configuration in Makefile is getting
> too big.

NO! At least the Makefile is debuggable and understandable.

If we need a better build system, I'd much rather use something higher-level that can generate VC++ project files etc.

In other words, I'd much rather see us using CMake or something like that, which actually adds real value-add.

(And no, I've never used cmake, so maybe it has horrors waiting for us too, but autoconf is just worthless).

			Linus