Re: build systems

[Frederic Peters <fpeters 0d be>]

Richard Hughes wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 00:32 +0100, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > In this case there is an easy solution. Convert a few GNOME projects
> > to the new build system and show the result.
> 
> Good plan. I've got an old branch of gnome-power-manager building with
> waf, and I indend on having waf a build method for PackageKit in the
> next few days. Is there any hard and fast rule that says gnome projects
> _have_ to use autotools?

Not any rule I know of; but using ./configure; make; make install (be
it with autotools or anything else) is quite useful to be integrated
in JHBuild modulesets.


        Frederic