commit: a75502e95b611e603261d6b3189848322364030c
parent 41a35bd86195eb076937445e738a0d83132ff664
Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:29:29 +0200
decisions: Switch from Makefile to *.ninja
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1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/decisions.md b/decisions.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019-2022 Badwolf Authors <https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf>
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019-2023 Badwolf Authors <https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf>
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
-->
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ Basically, the idea is to have a file in your projects repo, where you record
the decisions you make over the course of the project's lifetime.
Rewriting history will not be done but Post-Scriptum notices will.
+## 2023-07-23 : Switch from Makefile to *.ninja
+Problems:
+- Makefile+config.mk pretty much reached it's limits with manpage translations as you can't just string substitute your way out when it's both prefix & suffix.
+- meson/CMake/…: Still the same issues. With GNU autotools also becoming more and more problematic: <https://discourse.llvm.org/t/configure-script-breakage-with-the-new-werror-implicit-function-declaration/65213>, <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2022-09/msg00011.html>, <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Modern_C_porting>
+
+Solution picked: Transform Makefile into a static build.ninja file, and make configure generate a config.ninja file with the dynamic variables, rules and targets written in.
+
## 2021-09-07 : Move to a ./configure script
Problem: WebKitGTK gained a new ABI, changing 4.0 to 4.1 for libsoup3, which itself also meant some changes in badwolf
