replace autotools with qmake in KDE3

Dirk Mueller mueller at kde.org
Sun May 5 20:50:33 BST 2002


On Son, 05 Mai 2002, F at lk Brettschneider wrote:

> >Maybe it would be easier for the average developer to generate correct 
> >files if kdevelop wouldn't create the same buggy makefiles for projects.
> I think that's a side effect of the elaborateness of the autotools.

No excuse for bugs. 

> Why reinvent the wheel when there's qmake?

Because qmake and auto* are not quite in the same league. 

I agree that it might be nice to have a build system that works on non-Unix 
as well though. 


Dirk




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