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Month: October 2011

Re: [trinity-devel] Trinity Developer's Wiki

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:38:10 -0500
<snip>
> Wiki: "You cannot build part of the tree with CMake and then start
> building with autoconf...Building with autoconf from the SVN tree is not
> advisable unless you are prepared to put additional effort into the
> build."
>
> Recently Tim commented he uses cmake only for the four foundation packages
> (tqtinterface, arts, kdelibs, kdebase). IIRC one person said s/he was
> using only cmake. Should those statements be removed from the wiki or
> clarified?
<snip>

Yes, those statements should be removed from the Wiki.  It is mandatory to
build the foundation with CMake for a variety of reasons, and the
remaining packages must be built with Autotools because no CMake packaging
is available for a majority of them.

Tim