Re: CMake SoC Proposal

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:45 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > Gwynne Raskind wrote: > > My two US cents :). > > > > On Mar 19, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Jani Taskinen wrote: > >>> Here is a quick run down of some of the features of CMake and tools > >>> associated with it: > >>> • A single configure script that would be used regardless of the OS > >>> • A much simpler scripting language > >> m4 is simple. :-p > > > > Since when? > > m4 is actually one of the simplest languages around. There really isn't > much to it. The pain point of autoconf/automake/libtool isn't m4, it is > the complicated and often obtuse relationship between those 3 tools. > > I don't mind exploring cmake, but it is a massive undertaking to create > something that can build PHP on every UNIX and pseudo-UNIX platform out > there. We should figure out what the main goal here is. If it is > simply getting "native" build files so people can use their > pointy-clickety interfaces to build PHP, then it is probably way easier > to create .in files to generate those basic build templates from our > current system than it is to rewrite the whole thing. To have a pointy-clickety (I like this word :) interface is definitively not a goal. It is a side effect of using CMake as CMake has a GUI available on unix and windows. The main goal is actually to have one single tool for all platforms and to lower the barriers of the build scripts. Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org