Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?

[Michael J. Tubby B.Sc. MIET]

    Can we not just
    
    ./configure
    make
    make install
    
    
    simplez ?
    
    Mike ;-)

On 05/02/2020 23:09, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:

> On 2/5/20 11:55 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>:
> > > Imho the only useful alternative is cmake. Or meson, if you really think so.
> > >         
> > Both two-phase systems.  Why do people keep building these things?
> > It's a bad idea that never gets better noo matter how often it's
> > repeated.
> >       
> You are wrong. Really. Just plain wrong. Using well known tools that are
> known to be able to build complex systems (and I'm not talking about the
> code you are writing, way too tiny) saves so many hours of work as
> people know how to use them.
> Also every build system will have to implement the same functions as
> make has proven to have since years, there is absolutely no issue in
> generating code automatically. People even generate real program code
> because it is easier and safe to generate it automatically. Nothing
> wrong here.
>
> And it absolutely doesn't matter if a program does wrong things or it
> produces wrong code that instructs make to do wrong things, the result
> is the same. One could even wrap autotools, libtool and make into a
> single binary, it would be broken as before, but you would never see the
> Makefile. It really doesn't make a difference.
>
>
>

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