Build systems

[Thiago Macieira]

Leo Spalteholz wrote:
>Hello all.
>Just wondering if all projects in the kde svn have to be built with
>the automake tools.

Yes. At least, if you want your code to be compiled by other people, 
including your mentors.

>Right now I'm using qmake which is just a million 
>times simpler than the pure evil that is autotools (no, I'm not
>biased, why do you ask? :)
>Should I switch to autotools or is qmake ok too?  So far I'm using
>purely Qt libs.

AFAIK, there's only one project in our repository that is qmake-only, and 
that's qca (in kdesupport). That's also the reason I've never built or 
installed it.

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