From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Schwebel Subject: Re: cross-compiling alternatives (was Re: [PATCH 0/1] Embedded Maintainer(s)...) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:51:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20080613185157.GT13599@pengutronix.de> References: <1209577322.25560.402.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <200806122025.54791.rob@landley.net> <8bd0f97a0806121829o6138cb30se025fa3c29cdd1a8@mail.gmail.com> <200806130830.52734.neundorf@eit.uni-kl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200806130830.52734.neundorf@eit.uni-kl.de> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alexander Neundorf Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 08:30:52AM +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > Battle of Wesnoth is currently converted to both Scons and CMake, and > in the end they will decide about the winner. (since Eric is good at > arguing I guess it will be scons). The thing is that 'configure && make && make install' plus the usuall --enable-foo / --disable-foo / --with-bla=blub semantics is simply *the* standard way of configuring stuff for unix systems. You don't need fancy tools, you get cross compiling almost for free and unix people simply know how to use it. All the cool kids out there who think they know everything better usually start with "I hate autotools", then invent something which solves 0.1% of the problems (including their very special problem) and tell the rest of the world that their shiny new tools is *soooo cooool*. Been there, seen that. I maintain > 500 packets in PTXdist and guess which ones make 90% of the problems. Hint: they are not related to autotools ... rsc -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9