[ros-dev] cmake rant

[Jérôme Gardou]

+1 for Ged.

Le 21/07/2011 18:51, Ged Murphy a écrit :
> I'm all for deleting rbuild now and dealing with the consequences.
> That would be better than the current situation, which seems rather
> ridiculous at the moment.
>
> Right now if you change something, you have to :
> - edit the cmakefiles.txt file
> - edit the rbuild file
> - possibly edit a pspec and spec file
> - build with rbuild to check for breakages
> - build with cmake to check for breakages
>
> Only then can you commit your changes.
> It's not ideal for the people working on this stuff regularly.
>
> Ged.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] On
> Behalf Of Timo Kreuzer
> Sent: 21 July 2011 17:39
> To: ReactOS Development List
> Subject: [ros-dev] cmake rant
>
> Hi,
>
> Several times now cmake build has been broken. Time for some action!
>
> Last meeting I asked everyone to test/use cmake. It was also mentioned that
> if questions arise, we (Amine and me) would be happy to help out. I can't
> remember anyone has asked how it works, so I assume noone had any problems.
> There's also a pretty good wiki entry describing the whole procedure for
> n00bs.
>
> Now people tell me it's complicated, people are complaining that its
> ridiculous to have 2 build systems, etc.
> And probably noone has ever tried it.
>
> We really need to move on.
> I don't like having 2 build systems as well.
>
> Current blocker is the debugging which has some issues, Arty is working on
> that. Another problem is a boot problem on real hardware, but no I don't
> know on which configuration it doesn't work, so we need more people testing
> it on their real hardware setup and report any issues.
>
> Here's a list with current issues:
> http://www.reactos.org/wiki/CMake_Todo
>
> So please:
> If you are missing something, let us know.
> If you like to make it better, make suggestions.
> But stop ignoring cmake!
>
> If noone cares and everyone just thinks he can give a s^Z damn until we
> officially switch, then we can as well delete all cmake stuff and keep
> rbuild. It has a lot of awesome advantages, like you only have to type one
> command to build everything and you don't need to install cmake and you can
> export whatever you want from kernel32 even if the functions don't exist.
> Also you can enjoy the rbuild-loop again and again.
>
> Or we can do it the hard way and delete rbuild, so people are forced to use
> cmake. I'm sure this approach would be *really* appreaciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Timo
>
>
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