dead code in build.sh?

[Matt Dew]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Adrian Bunk <bunk at stusta.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:40:19AM -0600, Matt Dew wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:17:51 -0600, Matt Dew <matt at osource.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Would I be burned in effigy if I asked about:
>> >
>> > Yes.
>>
>> Sweet.  bring on the pitchforks.
>> >
>> >> 1) just moving the build system away from autotools to cmake
>> >
>> > cmake isn't nearly as flexible as autotools, and requires that cmake be
>> > present on the build system to build tarballs. Plus, it doesn't reduce
>> > the steps needed to build the system, just (purports) to make the
>> > maintenance of the build system easier.
>>
>> Is all that flexibility needed?  Does it get used?  every package
>> checks for  things like 'size_t supported...yes'  and 'max length of
>> gcc command line parameters....65535'.   Are these things still
>> needed?
>> Anyone used cmake,  can you comment on this one?
>>...
>
> That's not a new discussion, and it's leading nowhere.

It looks like a new discussion to me. I've not seen this topic on the
ML anywhere. If it's there, please point me in that direction.

>
> Many people don't love the autotools, but:
> - they do work and
> - switching to anything else would be a lot of work and
> - some posts on a mailing list will not change anything.


>
> Open Source Software development does *not* work as follows:
> - Hundreds of developers are just waiting to hear your great ideas
>  and are glad to implement them.
>
> Open Source Software development does work as follows:
> - *You* create patches for the switch to cmake (or whatever you like).
> - *You* submit your patches and tell what great advantages they bring.
> - *You* address problems with them raised by other people.
> - Your patches get applied.

Perhaps worded poorly...
I'm not looking for others to do the work.  If anyone wants to great,
but it's not expected and is not the point of this question.   The
purpose is to see if anyone has already looked into this and if they
have what did they come up with.   Besides, I've got enough work on my
hands with the documentation.

Matt