Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:32:14PM +0100, David Faure wrote:
> How about we keep Makefile.am, but use unsermake (as a dependency,
> which has to be installed first - no admin/ copies; oh, and with a better
> name of course). And for the configure part, using something like what
> scons provides - so that it's python all the way through.
> python can't be more scary than m4/autoconf macros, and for simple 
> things we can simply write a Makefile.am, as always.
> 
i love this idea.
just make sure that there are no build-related generated files exept an
[optional] [global] cache and two per-module config files (one for the
build system and one config.h - but maybe the former can be even merged
into the latter).

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