On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 07:45:08PM +0100, B?lint R?czey wrote:
> Originally I was skeptical regarding CMake, but now I think this is
> the best cross-platform option, thus the best option for Wireshark.
> Just give it a try, and you will never look back. :-)
Oookay, I'll try it :)
> Theoretically autofoo creates ./configure and a proper makefile
> system, but in reality the generated scripts get bitrot thus you
> practically need autofoo everywhere.
>
> New platforms for example don't have their gnu triplet in outdated
> configure scripts.
>
> Today the the best practice (IMO) is _not_ shipping configure, but
> requiring autofoo/CMake in source tarballs.
I haven't had that problem (yet), but that would explain why I'm seeing
more things like autogen.sh included in tarballs for software now.