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

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 7, 2007, 12:14 UTC
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"J.C. Pizarro" <jcpiza@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
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And this is relevant for this mailing list exactly how? From the whole autotools package git uses only autoconf, and only as an optional part to configure only Makefile configuration variables.

Generated files should not be put into version control, unless it is for convenience only in separate branch like HTML and manpage versions of git documentation are in 'html and 'man' branches, respectively. The same could be done with ./configure script.

Although there was some talk about whether giw should use autotools, or perhaps CMake, or handmade ./configure script like MPlayer IIRC, instead of its own handmade Makefile...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
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  1. J.C. PizarroDec 7, 2007
  2. Marcel HoltmannDec 7, 2007
  3. Jakub NarebskiDec 7, 2007
  4. Andreas EricssonDec 7, 2007
  5. Jakub NarebskiDec 7, 2007
  6. J.C. PizarroDec 7, 2007
  7. Marco CostalbaDec 7, 2007
  8. Jan HudecDec 10, 2007

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