Re:Building stuff from source
by swiftcoder on Sunday November 07, 2021 @06:16AM
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> The Makefile calls meson & ninja & npm
Makefile-that-calls-3-other-build-systems isn't really using Make to build, is it? You are using Make as a glorified batch file. Could just as well use bash.
> I tell macOS users to install VirtualBox and then build my software inside.
This is pretty much the textbook definition of "non-portable build"
Makefile-that-calls-3-other-build-systems isn't really using Make to build, is it? You are using Make as a glorified batch file. Could just as well use bash.
> I tell macOS users to install VirtualBox and then build my software inside.
This is pretty much the textbook definition of "non-portable build"