[Bf-committers] Makefile support

[Campbell Barton]

to summarize reasons to kick nan-makefiles.

- people downloading the source will see a makefile and type "make"
thinking they will get a build. (Make on linux is currently broken for
me, apparently its broken on mac too).
- threaded builds error out, make -j6 quits almost instantly (lots of
people have multi-cpus these days).
- its slow
- no active developers use it (afaik)
- it blocks cmake's in source builds.
- its Unix only, where CMake & SCons are cross platform.

For those who find the cmake's makefiles too verbose.
./build_files/cmake/example_scripts/make_quiet.sh

For those who used 'make quicky'
./build_files/cmake/example_scripts/make_quicky.py

- Campbell

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Aurel W. <aurel.w at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> some might say, that more available ways for building blender, might
> solve some problems on unusual platforms and systems. I currently use
> blender on rather strange systems (like clusters), very old enterprise
> linux distributions, etc.
>
> But I would have never made use of makefiles, even when i run into
> problems with cmake or scons. I can't think of any important reasons,
> not to maintain them any longer.
>
> However, having some choices when it comes to the build system is
> great. So at the moment it would be great to still maintain cmake and
> also scons and not to support just a single one.
>
> aurel
>
>
> On 16 January 2011 19:51, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I already gave up on Makefiles for OSX a month ago or so... it was
>> giving me inpredictable instable builds, and trying to figure out why
>> I gave up after a day.
>>
>> It seems to me it's still used by a couple of people here. I'd like to
>> know if there's - apart from personal taste - there's important
>> reasons to keep supporting it? The system is close to collapse under
>> its own weight, seems to me. :)
>>
>> Let me confirm that switching to CMake was painless and quick and it
>> builds faster than ever. I'm not totally happy with the noisy colorful
>> prints of cmake, but I'm quite sure that's a matter of time to get
>> solved too.
>>
>> Obviously; if we remove makefiles from svn, it'll allow "in source"
>> builds for cmake.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
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