On woensdag 9 augustus 2017 18:51:52 CEST Geert Janssens wrote: > > Geert and I use the cmake+ninja build system most of the time and the > > Windows automated build has been using it for just over a year. I think > > that it's well tested. There's a known problem that the dependency graph > > doesn't capture everything especially for some of the scheme modules so > > allowing too much parallelism (setting -j too high on a many-core machine) > > will try to build some things before their dependencies are done. That's > > not a blocker to dropping autotools. The only loose end at present is that > > there are still a few rough edges in the dist target that need to be > > cleaned up. > > Which dist target rough edges are you referring to here ? > > I know there is the issue I can't add Makefile.in files to the dist tarball > (because Rob's dist rules prevent my cmake version from running the > necessary commands). Other than that the dist tarball generated via both > build systems are identical on my system after I ironed out a few minor > issues last month. Since we're right now discussing dropping autotools, > this very issue becomes moot. > > Do you know other ones ?
Oh, and there is this little detail called Travis... Perhaps I should first test whether it can switch to cmake or not. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
