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Re: Build system considerations
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Alexei Podtelezhnikov |
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Re: Build system considerations |
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Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:29:49 -0400 |
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:34 PM David Turner <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Starting a thread here to discuss potential build system improvements for
> FreeType.
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> The current FreeType 2 build system has many flaws. To its credit, it was
> designed in a very different time, when things like CMake / Meson / Ninja/
> Maven / GN / Bazel didn't even exist, when Autotools was considered the best
> system to configure your build (ah!), and GNU Make 3.81 was considered new
> and bleeding edge, and didn't necessarily exist for all platforms. I'm not
> even sure pkg-config was available on all Linux distros until quite a long
> time. As I said ... very different times.
Most serious projects I have encountered so far use ./configure; make.
It is the libtool that annoys me. They refused to implement
-fvisibiity=hidden when I asked. They said that libtool was current
when building shared libraries was hard, which is actually true. Let's
just get rid of libtool as whatever it does for us is quite minimal.
Alexei