On 22-11-2017 11:02, Roland Knall wrote:
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 11:45 AM, João Valverde
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On 22-11-2017 08:37, Roland Knall wrote:
Might be a stupid question but on my account, only Linux
machines are now capable of building Wireshark out of the box
with autotools on default, right?
I'm not sure what you mean by "on default", but it seems unlikely
that anyone could build Wireshark without having to install at least
one dependency.
BSDs usually supply a gmake command for GNU Make. Not sure if it is
installed by default.
Installing a dependency is one thing, and fine by me. This includes
installing a newer version of make. But for certain builders, that might
not be an option (older Linux systems) as no packages might exist, and
they will have to build from source. In those cases, building the
make-system from source, just to use autotools is too much to ask for in
my book. All those people have already an alternative in place though
with cmake, but still, autotools sets the bar a little higher then
cmake, and that is in my opinion not a good idea if both systems should
be equal by design. So if they should be equal, that would also require
the same prerequisites, or at least the same level of obtainability.
That would be "installing a newer version of make" on OSX because of
licensing issues.
I don't understand either your logic of build systems "equal by design".
I would hope not, that seems kind of pointless.
We are giving a lot of thought to ancient systems with all sorts of
restrictions. I don't disagree with that, it's generally a good thing to
be considerate, but it remains to be seen the impact on systems other
than OSX.
For OSX please use CMake instead.
But again, not going so far as to suggest removal, was just wondering
the general issue.
cheers
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