Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 23rd Feb 2007 02:49 UTC, submitted by ronaldst
When a project with the size and scope of KDE gets to be as big as it is, sometimes changing a decision established almost a decade earlier is very difficult. KDE has relied on autotools to build most of the project since its inception, but for the last year, KDE 4 has been building with CMake, a newer build system that is rapidly becoming a heavyweight contender. Read on for more.
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2006-12-20
anything but trouble trying to manage autotools, hell, i gave up, its a freaking mess, i simply found it MUCH more managable to have a build bash script, where i wrote it all manually, it worked, was fast, and i could do that.