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z3bra
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My problem with CMake, autotools &co. is that they will most of the time test useless thing, and can fail a build for no particular reason.
I've had a build fail because the sed version I used "presumably" faileto handle "long lines". In this case "long" was of perfectly arbitrary length, and by testing it by hand, it worked like a charm. The issue was that the configure script was using a GNU/sed specific flag for this test.
I've been working with many of these autotools-based software recently when working on making my own distro, and most of the time, they harm more than they help when you get out of the all-gnu path.


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Build systems - by z3bra - 15-06-2017, 06:58 AM
RE: Build systems - by jkl - 15-06-2017, 09:17 AM
RE: Build systems - by z3bra - 15-06-2017, 10:01 AM
RE: Build systems - by evbo - 15-06-2017, 12:39 PM
RE: Build systems - by z3bra - 15-06-2017, 12:44 PM
RE: Build systems - by evbo - 15-06-2017, 12:55 PM
RE: Build systems - by z3bra - 15-06-2017, 03:21 PM
RE: Build systems - by pranomostro - 21-07-2017, 03:51 PM
RE: Build systems - by z3bra - 21-07-2017, 05:01 PM