At Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:01:01 -0400, Scot Jenkins via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register
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> "Greg A. Woods" <woods@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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