Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] porting on Autotools initiative

2013-02-05 Thread Oleksiy Ch
> > >> And of course, that requires GNU m4 1.4+ "because we need > > > > just don't use that macro, if I understand you right > In this case, I'm talking about regenerating configure. > If I remember right, auto* drags in perl and GNU m4 1.4+ as dependencies. That's true. It is a maintainers pro

[cdesktopenv-devel] poll: build system for CDE

2013-02-05 Thread Oleksiy Ch
Hello guys, Let me raise one question: what is a best preferred build system you consider for CDE and in general? I address this question to people having experience with maintaining *nix software in general and writing code in particular. Generally should CDE stay with Imake or move to other s

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] poll: build system for CDE

2013-02-05 Thread Robert Tomsick
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Oleksiy Ch wrote: > Hello guys, > > Let me raise one question: what is a best preferred build system you > consider for CDE and in general? I address this question to people > having experience with maintaining *nix software in general and writing > code in particular. > >

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] poll: build system for CDE

2013-02-05 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Oleksiy Ch wrote: > Hello guys, > > Let me raise one question: what is a best preferred build system > you consider for CDE and in general? I address this question to > people having experience with maintaining *nix software in general and > writing code in particular. Given

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] poll: build system for CDE

2013-02-05 Thread Oleksiy Ch
> If you ask me about my wish *in general* I am ready to > have a serious look at iffe plus I would like to have > a system that requires as little code generation as possible. > I like nmake/pmake (BSD make) approach which allows > to create very simple Makefiles that do not need to be > regenerat