Use autotools instead of pure Makefiles

[jaysonsantos]

Hi, why not use autotools? It would be a lot easier to maintain a packaging if using it. I'm trying to create an ebuild for gentoo and it is hard to override those dependencies on deps.src because would be better to use system's packages.

[chunying]

Hi,

GA is a cross-platform project and working with autorools on Windows seems not a good idea. Well, the fact is also that we are not familiar with autotool :)

For your question, it is not really necessary to work with deps.src. Most of the dependencies are retrieved with 'pkg-config'. So you should be able to work with system built-in packages. The reason that we provide deps.src is that, some system built-in packages, especially ffmpeg, are not up-to-date. As a result, we choose to provide deps.src along with GA distributions.

Actually, the current GA codes work with system built-in packges on Mac OS X with brew package management system. FYI.

Hope that helps.

Best, Chun-Ying

On 2014/1/29 上午12:42, Jayson Reis wrote:

Hi, why not use autotools? It would be a lot easier to maintain a packaging if using it. I'm trying to create an ebuild for gentoo and it is hard to override those dependencies on deps.src because would be better to use system's packages.

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[djelouze]

Hi there! The cross-platform argument is indeed the right point. However, maintaining several build systems is a waste of time. I would suggest that you use CMake (www.cmake.org) for this project. I could find some times to help you in that. Keep up the good work! Best regards Jérôme