20 Jun
2024
20 Jun
'24
11:18 a.m.
That being said, I must confess there is a very smll number of tools I
use, which I build from source, keep up with patches and updates for,
etc. I don't have the same problems as a sysadmin for a large community
using many open source projects, those issues are real but since I'm
only supporting my opinionated self, I have the luxury of choosing
software that meets my approval.
On 06/19/2024 10:09 PM, Luther Johnson wrote:
I just avoid tools that build with CMake altogether, I
look for
alternative tools. The tool has already told me, what I can expect from
a continued relationship, by its use of CMake ...
On 06/19/2024 10:01 PM, Scot Jenkins via TUHS wrote:
"Greg A. Woods"
<woods(a)robohack.ca> wrote:
I will not ever allow cmake to run, or even
exist, on the machines I
control...
I'm not a fan of cmake either.
How do you deal with software that only builds with cmake (or meson,
scons, ... whatever the developer decided to use as the build tool)?
What alternatives exist short of reimplementing the build process in
a standard makefile by hand, which is obviously very time consuming,
error prone, and will probably break the next time you want to update
a given package?
If there is some great alternative, I would like to know about it.
scot