On 10/19/07, Gonzalo Garramuño <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a) All unix autotools utilities (or other libs like ffmpeg) built under > mingw/msys will not install in $PROGRAMFILES, which leads to cmake's > approach being totally backwards with the rest of msys.
Actually, last I checked 2+ years ago, I was surprised how totally hostile the MSYS developers were to Autotools. Previously I sorta thought the entire point of MSYS was "to run the Autotools" but apparently they didn't think so. So, as far as I'm concerned, the behavior of Autotools does not in any way define the expectations of MSYS. It would be reasonable for the Autotools to be modified to work with native Windows installation paths as the default. However, the FSF is hostile to Windows, they want it to go away. This is a case of pretending that MSYS is and should be Unix, as opposed to a shell for Windows native development. > b) cygwin's approach is sadly bloated and uses a somewhat inefficient > approach Complaints about bloat fall on my deaf ears. I'm writing Autoconf & GMake --> CMake translators in CMake script! :-) > that also forces you to depend on cygwin.dll But yeah, the GPL is a limitation. Cheers, Brandon Van Every _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
