On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 08:03:49PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > I am working on an update of libsndfile to 1.2.0. > > Sadly, I was not around for the 1.1.0 update (thank you Brad), > when apparently the decision was made to switch to the cmake build. > Is there a particular reason for that? > > Under https://github.com/libsndfile/libsndfile/releases > they provide a tar.gz (as just a tag really) without ./configure, > so to use that is to pull in autoreconf and automake etc. However, > there is also a tar.xz which provides ./configure; I propose to switch > back to the gnu ./configure build, considering the archivers/xzcat > dependency a lesser evil than the cmake dependency. > > Are there any advantages to the cmake build?
I don't think there is a disadvantage to it. It's already done. -GH_TAGNAME= 1.1.0 +GH_TAGNAME= 1.2.0 make makesum make FETCH_PACKAGES= and you should be ready to test (and see if you need to bump the shared library version, etc). > Are there any objections? > > Jan >
