r16624 - gnucash/trunk - Remove the spurious m4/ directory. Use macros/ instead.

[Christian Stimming]

Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 20:32 schrieb Graham Leggett:
> Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:
> >> The whole point of cmake is that it will perform all those
> >> platform-checks (more precisely: host and target checks) which used to
> >> be done by the autoconf-generated shell scripts which nobody was able to
> >> understand. But the price for this is that cmake is required to be
> >> installed on the host.
>
> I am with Derek on this one. Autoconf is mature, works on a long list of
> platforms, and does the job.
>
> What will cmake do, apart from restrict the build to fewer systems?

I'm sorry, but the last part is some FUD that doesn't need to be redistributed 
any further. The KDE project explicitly states that already very early into 
the migration to cmake, it built on more platforms than it ever did with 
autotools.

People might say that autotools itself might run on way more platforms than 
cmake does. Well, this might be true, but of course it doesn't say anything 
about whether the project that uses autotools will run on all these 
platforms. Usually it won't. Hence, the question is not the number of 
platforms where the build system runs - the question rather is: Does the 
build system make it easy for the application to support more platforms? The 
build system running on that platform is a necessary prerequisite, but not at 
all sufficient. In terms of KDE, obviously cmake made it easier to extend KDE 
to more platforms than before. In my experience with cmake, I can fully agree 
to this.

Christian