----- Original Message ----- > On 11/21/2011 09:40 AM, Eric Anholt wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:17:03 -0800 (PST), 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 ? > > > > cmake is the worst Linux build system I think I've ever > > encountered, > > including automake and the various custom garbage I've seen in > > software > > I've packaged. Its ability to make a modern CPU look slow is > > stunning. > > That said, I don't care to maintain mesa-demos (it's why I wanted > > it cut > > out of Mesa core), so I don't really have a say here. > > In piglit, the thing that's really irritating about CMake is the fact > that if I simply type 'make', it slowly enumerates every single one > of > the tests instead of just updating the one or two targets I've > changed. > With automake, if nothing needs updating, it returns almost > immediately > and says "Nothing to be done". cmake is incredibly slow. > > That said, I vastly prefer only having one build system, so if it has > to > be CMake, then...that's fine. Much better than having two. > > Presumably the reason for picking CMake over Automake is that it's > easier to use on Windows?
Correct. The only mean to use automake on windows is through cygwin/msys, and it's probably limited to Cygwin/MinGW gnu compiler only. I don't think it's possible to use Microsoft compiler with automake at all. Jose _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
