On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Peter Jeremy <peterjer...@acm.org> wrote: > On 2010-Jul-02 23:53:17 +0100, Philip Herron <redbr...@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: >>>> Although maybe not helpful but have you considered using >>>> automake/libtool instead makes it so much simpler in my opinion. > ... >>Automake will auto-handle Lex and Yacc files too. And is extremely portable. > > You are joking, right? > > Of all the supposedly "portable" build environment tools I've used, > GNU autotools is by far the slowest, most bloated and least portable. > And when you run into problems, you are faced with trying to follow > hundreds of KB of opaque shellscript and obfuscated makefiles. >
>From my experience, CMake is the best and hope it gets adopted more widely. I agree the initial effort of getting a cmake based build environment will take sometime but going forward, maintaining it is lot simpler when you care about portability. I do not work for kitware nor anyway involved with cmake apart from being a happy user. Quite a few large projects are moving to cmake. -dhruva _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
