On 16.10.2016, at 20:41, Esteban Lorenzano estebanlm@gmail.com wrote:
Well, the VM we use uses autoconf for building linux, I didn’t see any CMake. In Pharo branch, we use CMake, so *in theory* I should prefer CMake over Autoconf. Now… I'm also a fan of keeping things as simple as possible, that’s why I would think carefully before introducing a new tool… (I do not know interpreter side).
see here :) https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/oldTrunk/platforms/un...
Ian went long streak for making things quite easy and useful…
And CMake being less convoluted than Autoconf… well, I’m not so sure, I suffered a lot both of them :)
Esteban