Re: [Chicken-hackers] Debian package

[Ivan Raikov]

  I see. Thanks for the explanation, John! Well, I have added the
Debian files to the dist target in Makefile.am (it was a trivial
change), and I will be more than happy to make the necessary additions
to the CMake build file. I don't mind working with whatever is the
currently favored build tool. By the way, I am curious what was the
problem with using Autoconf/Automake under MinGW? I ported a fairly
complex distributed computing toolkit to MinGW last month, and the
only GNU-related problem I saw was that libtool somehow gets confused
when the source directory includes spaces (like "Documents and
Settings"). In fact, I was pleasantly surprised how painless things
were.

   -Ivan

John Cowan <address@hidden> writes:

>
> Brandon is overstating the case.  CMake is now the only supported build
> method *on Windows* (excluding Cygwin).  It works, as far as is known,
> on Linux platforms, but is not yet the only supported method.  Only Felix
> can declare that event, and he has not.
>
> For now, building via Automake/Autoconf is still supported.  Of course,
> the more Linux people learn to build with CMake, the closer the day
> comes when Automake/Autoconf can be junked, which Felix has stated is
> his intention.
>
> (Sorry if I'm misrepresenting you, Felix, but I thought this should
> be said.)


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