Thank you for not using autoconf

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 03 June 2013 06:41:11 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2013 14:46:51 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 31 May 2013 10:43:17 Jon Schneider wrote:
> > > Thank you for making this work and please don't let anyone tell you to
> > > start using GNU autoconf and friends. They're absolute crap for most
> > > packages when cross building.
> > 
> > not to go way off topic for this list, but that's not really true. 
> > autotools tends to work a lot more reliably than
> > $random-build-system-of-the-day.  i spend more time fixing non-autotool
> > packages to cross-compile properly than autotool ones.
> 
> Completely agree.
> 
> As far as cross-compilation is concerned, autotools-based or
> CMake-based packages are *way* much easier to handle than any
> hand-written build system.

i guess you haven't built any semi-complicated cmake-based packages :).  
suggest *not* poking around /usr/share/cmake/Modules/ unless you want to cry 
and die inside.
-mike
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