Re: build systems

["Ali Sabil" <ali sabil gmail com>]

On Nov 11, 2007 9:58 PM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 18:20 +0100, Emmanuel Fleury wrote:
> > Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> > >
> > > I coded distcheck into WAF a couple of months ago.  It wasn't even a
> > > difficult task...
> >
> > What about gettext support ?
> >
> > See: http://code.google.com/p/waf/issues/detail?id=51
>
> What potentially excites me about a new build system is the ability to
> extend it to do tasks specific to GNOME. If you are doing standard .c
> to .o compilation and linking into executables, then automake really
> isn't that bad. But where our current stuff gets awful is:
>
>  * intltool, gettext, [glib-]gettextize
>  * gtkdoc and gtkdocize
>  * GTK+ marshaller and enumeration generation
>
> And so forth. No phrase fits our solutions to these situations other
> than "hack tower".
>

Actually there is already a GNOME tool for waf included, it doesn't
handle gtkdocize last time I checked, but it is a very good starting
point.

--
Ali