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Kidding? No. I'm not. To my point, try porting an autotools package to OpenVMS, for instance. No autotools. Weak bash. No CMake, either. And trying to po
by Hoff 14y ago
Kidding? No. I'm not. To my point, try porting an autotools package to OpenVMS, for instance. No autotools. Weak bash. No CMake, either. And trying to port autotools itself has been an on-going project; that's been no small effort and attempted by a number of folks, and (so far) no particular success.
- qznc 14y agoSo what does work on OpenVMS?
- Hoff 14y agogmake scripts are usually fairly portable to OpenVMS, and there is a decent — though not great — ability to invoke bash build scripts directly. If I had my druthers here, I'd like a build tool that wasn't a layer atop GNU/Linux/Unix — and that's not to imply how autotools works here is at all bad or particularly wrong, it's just an approach that's a bear to port the tools — and have that (portable) build tool then generate the platform-specific build script, build procedure, build-whatever equivalent. Conceptually: to move the existing builds from a procedural, interpreted approach into a higher-level and object-oriented approach.