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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Meson build system
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:31:57 -0400
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Farley Flud wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:38:57 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Not strictly a Linux topic, but....
>
> Yes, it is.
>
>> So I've used GNU Autotools for many many years (like since 2006 maybe?). But
>> for new project I decided to go with Meson.
>
> I program only for myself and not for any grubbing corporation.
> Thus, my projects can get by with just GNU Make.

Heh heh. All of my personal projects have hitherto used GNU Autotools.
A blend of autoconf, autoheader, automake, libtool and libtoolize, and of
course some m4 macros.

For one of them, I also added a qmake build process, which turned out to
be useful for building in Windows and in FreeBSD.

> But my personal projects often use bash to unite various C programs
> into a coherent whole.  That is beyond the scope of any build
> system like autotools or cmake.

You are the King of Brute Force!

> Also, I am beginning to consider Tk/Tcl as a graphical alternative
> to bash.  A great aid in development is vtcl:
>
> https://vtcl.sourceforge.net/

Cripes, the 8.6 version is 8 years old!

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