On 2021/07/09 12:17, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when trying to build editors/emacs,no_x11 I noticed that cmake (and
> thus python) were needed to build jansson.  That's a bit much in my
> book.  It turns out that upstream jansson seems to advertize ./configure
> instead of cmake.  Also:
> - the autotools build provides shared and static libs by default, no
>   need for a patch
> - the autotools build uses -Wl,--version-script thus the list of
>   exported symbols shrinks a lot, which avoids potential conflicts with
>   other libraries
> 
> Looking for oks.  The cmake files aren't installed anymore, I'll try to
> find out whether that's a problem.

The ports using jansson which themselves are built with cmake are
logswan and fs2open; both builds are happy with this change.
This change makes sense and is OK with me.

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