Converting Yhc to use Cabal

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Wed Jun 20 11:58:23 EDT 2007


Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:15:23PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>>> I beleive that the best approach would be to split the York build system
>>> into separate build systems for yhc/yhi/etc.  Yhi, being a pure C
>>> program, can use a system designed for pure C, such as autotools.
>> Which doesn't really like Windows, so isn't really an option...
> 
> Ah yes.  Windows is a good reason to pick scons over autotools.

There's also cmake, which might be a better option.  If you're not 
already using scons, I wouldn't recommend it, based on painful 
experience with its inflexibility.

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