[Vm-dev] updating configure.ac

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Sun Oct 16 18:48:20 UTC 2016


On 16.10.2016, at 20:41, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the VM we use uses autoconf for building linux, I didn’t see any CMake. 
> In Pharo branch, we use CMake, so *in theory* I should prefer CMake over Autoconf. Now… I'm also a fan of keeping things as simple as possible, that’s why I would think carefully before introducing a new tool… (I do not know interpreter side).
> 

see here :)
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/oldTrunk/platforms/unix

Ian went long streak for making things quite easy and useful…

> And CMake being less convoluted than Autoconf… well, I’m not so sure, I suffered a lot both of them :)
> 
> Esteban



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