Re: would it be time to replace scons with meson build system?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Wed, 05 Feb 2020 20:05:17 -0500
Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:

> Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On 2/5/20 3:26 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >  
> >> This rules out cmake, which needs C++11, and for me, has a personal
> >> track record of having difficulty building it due to tracking C++
> >> features way too fast.  And, (perhaps this is unfair) cmake-using
> >> projects tend to have a lot of code in CMakefiles that has per-OS
> >> ifdefs when they should have feature tests.  
> >
> > cmake should support c++ 98, 11, 14, and 17 just fine, fail to
> > understand the problem to be honest. Could you give an example what
> > exactly fails when using cmake?
> > And that some projects do stupid things is something you do not
> > have to repeat to use cmake.  
> 
> I meant that if the system you are trying to use cmake on doesn't
> have a C++11 compiler, then you can't build cmake and thus you can't
> use it.

Oh, pretty much a show stopper for use with gpsd.

Next idea?

RGDS
GARY
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