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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] autotoolizing xen?
Anthony Liguori wrote:
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 13:20, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:
Instead, use a better build system. I am using Jam (which is public
domain) for my stuff, and that works perfectly, and the build
specifications are a lot simpler that the xen Makefiles.
I've used Jam before with Boost. It can get quite nasty (if you try to
be portable and include a version of Jam, you've got a nasty chicken and
the egg problem).
Most of the major distros (at least debian and gentoo) now come with jam
binaries, so that is not as much of a problem today, but the Jam source
is very small and it would not be impossible to include it as part of
the source tree.
Anyway, I did a fairly thorough investigation of the whole build-system
scene a few years ago, and back then my conclusion was that while Jam is
not perfect, it is lightyears ahead of make in speed and portability
(make will basically not work on a non-unix box, because all Makefiles
tend to rely heavily on tools such as sed and awk), and is both faster
and easier to use than other make replacements such as Ant and SCons.
The linux 2.6 build system is also an option. At least it seems a lot
better than the 2.4 version.
I agree that not being able to build Xen without having xlibs is kind of
silly. When I emerged twisted it ended up dragging in freetype and most
of Gnome as well! But maybe the solution is to just not include ioemu in
the Xen tree until such dependencies are cleaned up, rather than trying
to fix the problem in the build system.
Jacob
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