Re: Removing the "&build" from gtk+ in CVSROOT/modules

[Todd Fisher <taf2 lehigh edu>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> I think the build module can be dropped from gtk+, and then the build
> subdirectory removed from SUBDIRS in gtk+'s Makefile.am. It's enough
> if "build" is included in glib.
>
> (Do we want to keep "build" around at all? As it currently is in CVS,
> it's quite out-of-date anyway, and it always needs heavy-handed local
> editing. But apparently some people (well, at least Hans Breuer) do
> use the stuff in there when building GLib, GTK etc with MSVC.)
>
> I dare not munge with CVSROOT/modules myself, could somebody else with
> more chutzpah please do it...
>
> Maybe now would be a good time also to discuss to what degreee support
> for building GLib and GTK with MSVC should be attempted to be kept?
> Although I do use gcc and auto* 99.9% of the time myself, I do see
> that being able to build with MSVC might have its points. Mainly as
> 3rd-party tools like Purify or BoundsChecker work much better (or even
> only?) with MSVC-compiled code.
I hope it would be possible to continue supporting msvc.  Also, I wonder 
if it
is possible to get autotools working with msvc; removing the need for a 
second set of makefiles
as well as some of the extra added complexity.

It seems mozilla was successful in merging their makefiles into one set 
so, perhaps gtk+ can do
something similar.   Although, they don't appear to make use of 
automake, so perhaps it is not
possible with automake. 

The main reason I started using msvc was to get gtk+ as small as 
possible for distribution in win32.  


-todd