Re: [dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-09-21 Thread Страхиња Радић
On 23/09/21 09:42AM, LM wrote: > I build a lot of common libraries and programs from source. Many of > them are switching to cmake. I'm not a fan of cmake. For one thing, > it's so complicated to build from source code that I can't bootstrap > the build of cmake itself. I really would prefer to

Re: [dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-09-21 Thread Dave Blanchard
[After re-reading that email I see that I should have edited it bit better before posting:] I've used all the mainstream build systems to build thousands of other people's software packages, and a few of my own, so I have a good idea how they each stack up from the usability department at least

Re: [dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-09-21 Thread Dave Blanchard
I've used all the mainstream build systems to build thousands of other people's software packages, and a few of my own, so I have a good idea how they each stack up from the usability department at least. All things considered, over the course of building many thousands of packages with it (in

Re: [dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-09-21 Thread Markus Wichmann
Am Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 04:05:17PM +0200 schrieb David Demelier: > Hi, > > It's near to impossible to convert a CMake project to make > automatically, CMake is almost like a scripting language given the > numerous of things you can do with it. > > Keep in mind that plain make (POSIX) is enough for

Re: [dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-09-21 Thread eric
On 2023-09-21 14:42, LM wrote: I build a lot of common libraries and programs from source. Many of them are switching to cmake. I'm not a fan of cmake. For one thing, it's so complicated to build from source code that I can't bootstrap the build of cmake itself. I really would prefer to build

Re: [dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-09-21 Thread David Demelier
On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 09:42 -0400, LM wrote: > I build a lot of common libraries and programs from source.  Many of > them are switching to cmake.  I'm not a fan of cmake.  For one thing, > it's so complicated to build from source code that I can't bootstrap > the build of cmake itself.  I really w

[dev] getting rid of cmake builds

2023-09-21 Thread LM
I build a lot of common libraries and programs from source. Many of them are switching to cmake. I'm not a fan of cmake. For one thing, it's so complicated to build from source code that I can't bootstrap the build of cmake itself. I really would prefer to build as many of my tools from source

[dev] [dmenu][bug report] Second instance invisible

2023-09-21 Thread Christopher Lang
I have experienced the following bug on both arch linux and void linux. dmenu and dwm are both installed with config.h equal to config.def.h. I run the following shell command: seq 2 | dmenu && seq 3 | dmenu The first dmenu instance opens as expected. I hit the enter key and a 1 is printed. Ho