[TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

[Adam Thornton]

Someone clearly never used imake...


There's a reason that the xmkmf command ends in the two letters it does,
and I'm never going to believe it's "make file".

Adam

On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 11:34 AM Greg A. Woods <woods at robohack.ca> wrote:

> At Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:01:01 -0400, Scot Jenkins via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> wrote:
> Subject: [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix
> philosophy' The Register
> >
> > "Greg A. Woods" <woods at robohack.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > I will not ever allow cmake to run, or even exist, on the machines I
> > > control...
> >
> > I'm not a fan of cmake either.
> >
> > How do you deal with software that only builds with cmake (or meson,
> > scons, ... whatever the developer decided to use as the build tool)?
> > What alternatives exist short of reimplementing the build process in
> > a standard makefile by hand, which is obviously very time consuming,
> > error prone, and will probably break the next time you want to update
> > a given package?
>
> The alternative _is_ to reimplement the build process.
>
> For example, see:
>
>         https://github.com/robohack/yajl/
>
> This example is a far more comprehensive rewrite than is usually
> necessary as I wanted a complete and portable example that could be used
> as the basis for further projects.
>
> An example of a much simpler reimplementation:
>
>
> http://cvsweb.NetBSD.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/mit/ctwm/bin/ctwm/Makefile?rev=1.12&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN
>
> --
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