Re: Abysmal state of GTK build

[Andrea Corallo]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> I wonder whether anybody has looked into switching to a different build
>> system?
>
> Long time ago I volunteered to create a CMake-based build system and
> even experimented a bit to the point of dumping emacs. Almost all of the
> work consisted on implementing the platform checks.
>
> CMake has the advantage of supporting multiple "backends" for the build
> phase, and `ninja' provides a significant speed-up over `make' on large
> projects.

Using ninja would translate into an hard dependency on python and I
don't think this is acceptable.  Also I'm not really sure ninja is
faster than make.

BR

  Andrea