Re: FR: Provide Out-Of-Tree Building; Provide Cross-Compile Parameters

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 10, 2024, 15:53 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfrshz1ja.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <Zo3-FVT5EFyKsdGc@danh.dev>

Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:

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>> ...  And "cross compilation" is
>> one of the things that is so obvious "isn't it nice if we had..."
>> items.  At least the offer has to be a bit more, like "I'll help in
>> this and that area (e.g., organizing the effort, keeping track of
>> progress, researching dependencies, ...).  Any others who want to
>> join forces?"
>
> I thought in Git project, Makefile is the official build system, and
> the autotools build system is only an after-thought, no?

True. In addition to autotools, there also is cmake "support" (only meant to be used for Windows) in our tree, which us non-Windows folks pretty much treat like how Makefile-only folks treat autotools.

But even if they started as and still are after-thought, with enough interest by other participant, there is nothing forbidding a contributor to organize an effort to improve them. The only constraint from our side is not to butcher the main build system too badly to make Makefile-only build less pleasant to work with and harder to maintain.

Thanks.