On 11/21/2011 05:07 AM, Jose Fonseca wrote:
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Jose Fonseca<jfons...@vmware.com>
wrote:
Johannes Obermayr's recent patch series remind me of one thing I've
been planning to ask here for quite some time:
Would anybody oppose dropping automake build system in mesademos
for just cmake ?
On Mesa there is rationale behind the two different build systems
(automake and scons), but for mesademos, there's nothing that
automake can do that can't be made with cmake; both generate
makefiles giving a similar experience to Linux/Unix developers;
cmake is already exclusively used in piglit, so there's
substantial expertise/familiarity on mesa developers community
already; and cmake has the advantage over automake of supporting
native Windows/MSVC builds.
So I really don't think there's any need for automake on mesademos
anymore.
I know mesademo's cmake build system does not yet build some
apps/demos, but this is some thing that I could easily and gladly
fix if we agreed on deprecating automake over cmake on mesademos.
I've no real objections to it but the big difference between piglit
and mesa-demos is that distros package mesa-demos, nobody packages
piglit really and there is little reason to.
so dropping automake means all the downstream consumers have to redo
their packaging to use cmake which can be a bit painful.
Though I'm sure fedora has lots of simple cmake things to steal
packaging info from.
Thanks.
Yes, I agree the needs of linux distribution packagers would have to be address
too. But my impression is also that cmake is not particularly quirky or hard to
package provided minimal care is taken. And some of Johannes Obermayr's patches
seem to address some this.
BTW, I think there was some interest in getting piglit to install as normal
packages do. The use case, at least for me, is to allow piglit to be built on a
build machine, and then tested on a separate test cluster (avoiding the need to
build piglit on every node, or share the whole source tree with NFS). But
actually packging seems unnecessary to me as well, given the rate at which
tests are being added to piglit.
FWIW, I'm not a big fan of cmake either, but I'm OK with switching to
that as the one build system for demos.
-Brian
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