From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:61982 "EHLO mail-we0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756602Ab2ARM4O (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:56:14 -0500 Received: by werb13 with SMTP id b13so325352wer.19 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:56:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F16C16A.7000208@googlemail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:56:10 +0100 From: Gregor Jasny MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Boettcher CC: Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: v4l-utils migrated to autotools References: <4F134701.9000105@googlemail.com> <4F16B8CC.3010503@redhat.com> <2648c3dfc9ea2bd3bae776200d7e056e@chewa.net> <201201181344.09700.pboettcher@kernellabs.com> In-Reply-To: <201201181344.09700.pboettcher@kernellabs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 1/18/12 1:44 PM, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > I missed the first message of this thread, that's why I hijacked it here > and it is short: > > I love cmake and can't understand why people are not preferring it over > autotools for user-space applications and conditional+configurable > builds. > > I hope my mail is not too off-topic. My first attempt to add a sane buildsystem used cmake, too: https://github.com/gjasny/v4l-utils-cmake But Hans (de Goede) preferred something more 'standard'. So I learned autofoo. And I must admit it really got better during the years. And packaging is also easy: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~libv4l/+junk/packaging/view/head:/rules Thanks, Gregor