[Aldor-l] Build system

[Bill Page]

On 2008/8/12 Pippijn wrote:
>
> I am going to move to autotools now, but before I do that, I would like
> to know people's opinion on alternative build systems such as const,
> scons, jam, cmake, boost.build, etc..
>
> Also see http://www.gamesfromwithin.com/articles/0506/000092.html
>

I looked at this - especially 'jam' - but I did not see anything that
really convinced me that any of these are significantly better than
just continuing with (gnu)make and autoconf. I am also rather against
the use of recursive make for the reasons given here:
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html ,
but I do not consider that an argument against make - just one style
of using make. In any case there are well documented "best practice"
ways of avoiding these problems.

As some people say: Perfection is often the enemy of the "good
enough". Since 'make' is so well known and is good enough, I would
strongly prefer to continue on that path.

Regards,
Bill Page.