Re: How do I use GNU AutoTools?

Alexander Schwinn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.xfce.devel.version4
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If you anyhow want to start from scratch, I would suggest using meson.

cmake imo is just a different hell / not any better than autotools,

Cheers, Alex

Am 11. Juli 2022 14:11:43 MESZ schrieb samuel ammonius <[email protected]>:
>Hi. I hope this isn't too off-topic, but I came from this forum thread
><https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=67991#p67991> hoping to find out
>how to use autotools for a fork of XFCE that I was hoping to make. I have a
>few questions:
>
>   1. Is it ok if I just use CMake or is there a reason that XFCE uses
>   autotools (is the reason just that CMake wasn't available when XFCE was
>   created?)
>   2. If CMake is a bad option, how do I actually use autotools?

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