Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> writes:

> On Aug 02 15:21:55, mans@mansr.com wrote:
>> In the SoX tree, there are currently support files for autotools, CMake,
>> and two ancient versiona of Visual Studio.
>>
>> Out of the box, the CMake build fails, but with the right options it
>> completes successfully, for now.  The Visual Studio projects are almost
>> certainly broken.
>>
>> Maintaining multiple build systems seems to me like an unnecessary
>> burden.  I am therefore tempted to simply delete all but the autotools
>> based one.  If nobody makes a compelling argument for keeping these
>> extra build systems, I intend to do this next time a change would
>> require updating them.
>
> Please do kill the VS build and the CMake build with fire.

With pleasure, but I'll wait a little while in case someone has a good
reason to keep it.  Given the lack of development activity the last few
years, though, I'm quite confident nobody will object.

> That being said, I would like to replace
> the autotools hell with something like
> https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/mandoc/configure
> - a short, simple ./configure script written by hand,
> as opposed to produced by auto*

While I'm no fan of autotools, the existing script works.  I'll consider
replacements if maintaining it becomes too much of a burden.

--
Måns Rullgård


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