From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2676 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2007 12:44:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 2665 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Dec 2007 12:44:32 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.op5.se (HELO mail.op5.se) (193.201.96.20) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:44:26 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C991F0809D; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:44:23 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Score: -4.399 Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id B8MhFfFKh4IW; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:44:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [192.168.1.20]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A791F0802A; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 13:44:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47594021.40200@op5.se> Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:44:00 -0000 From: Andreas Ericsson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jakub Narebski CC: "J.C. Pizarro" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, git@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Daniel Berlin , Ismail Donmez Subject: Re: In future, to replace autotools by cmake like KDE4 did? References: <998d0e4a0712061810k18e6388jde9d7bc5bd006b57@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00237.txt.bz2 Jakub Narebski wrote: > > Although there was some talk about whether giw should use autotools, > or perhaps CMake, or handmade ./configure script like MPlayer IIRC, > instead of its own handmade Makefile... > To tell the truth, I'd be much happier if everything like that got put in a header file or some such. 95% of what we figure out by looking at "uname" output can already be learned by looking at the various pre-defined macros. Fortunately, there's a project devoted solely to this, so most of the tedious research need not be done. It can be found at http://predef.sourceforge.net/ -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231