[TUHS] Re: "Imake: an obsolete build tool" -- anybody got this?

At Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:39:45 +0000, "Ronald Natalie" <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote: Subject: [TUHS] Re: "Imake: an obsolete build tool" -- anybody got this? Yikes. That's not what I would call an improvement! I think CMake is about as anti-Unix (in philosophy) as you can get. At least Imake had a clear design and simple basic concept, and in its basic form it could be highly performant. It was simple tool for using other tools in an innovative way. As used by X11 though it was part of what might best be described as a dog's breakfast, but that's only really because the X11 macros kind of grew by committee and had an extraordinary variety of target systems and source code to contend with. CMake has ended up with what I would consider an even uglier and more unpalatable dog's breakfast. It also abuses other tools, requires hours to compile on otherwise usable platforms, and wastes CPU and memory like nothing else. -- Greg A. Woods <gwoods(a)acm.org> Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods(a)robohack.ca> Planix, Inc. <woods(a)planix.com> Avoncote Farms <woods(a)avoncote.ca>