Re: How do I use GNU AutoTools?
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+1 for Meson, these other build systems are a bit tedious (especially comparatively)! Sent from Proton Mail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On Jul 11, 2022, 8:11 AM, Alexander Schwinn wrote: > 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: >> >> - 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?) >> - If CMake is a bad option, how do I actually use autotools? _______________________________________________ Xfce4-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce4-dev