On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:18:49PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > Reverting 19692 and waiting for a cleaner patch might be an option. > > If no one can fix autotools in a day, autotools can be dumped because > too few people can or are willing to maintain it.
As long as there is no consensus on what the replacement will look like autotools stays the preferred build environment (and I hate it, too, but that's not the point). We can re-open the discussion and try to reach a new consensus, but until we have that LyX source has to be buildable with autotools. [And getting consensus more or less boils down to you and Peter agreeing on whether to use scons or cmake, and the survivor showing the rest that we don't use any of the features of autotools we are actively using (or propose a reasonable alternative to those features)[ Andre'
