[Zlib-devel] Misc build fixups

[Enrico Weigelt]

Cosmin Truta wrote:

Hi,

> I know you contributed treebuild.xml a few years ago, but I recommend
> removing it. I hope you don't mind. I searched the net for Treebuild,
> but I found nothing relevant. The old homepage
> (http://treebuild.metux.de) has been 404 for a long time.

right, the site is currently down, but treebuild still exists:

	http://repo.or.cz/w/treebuild.git

> I encourage the use of mature and proven build systems like CMake or
> Apache Ant, and I'm okay even with the lesser-known ones like Perforce
> Jam. 

Actually, in our case, tools like ant won't bring any benefit over
current Makefile's, since it's quite the same concept: rule-based
system to describe the build process. Treebuild is the only build tool
I know of, which only models the _structure_ of the project (as the
developers design it), leaving the whole process of building (including
all the platforms specific stuff) to the buildtool.


cu
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