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The LibreOffice build system (which is plain GNU Make, without generated unreadable intermediate build files) does all these and more. Doing the same with autot
by arglwarg 10y ago
The LibreOffice build system (which is plain GNU Make, without generated unreadable intermediate build files) does all these and more. Doing the same with autotools would be a nightmare.
- grandinj 10y agoWe do however have some serious gnu make gurus to make that tractable.
- arglwarg 10y ago... as we would have needed for CMake or Autotools. It might have worked with the former for something as complex as LibreOffice, but GNU make being so simple/basic and stable over the years was a big plus: Im sure even with CMake LibreOffice would have had fun with lots of small cornercase regressions.