[Qt5-feedback] Build system requirements for Qt5

[Hugo Parente Lima]

On Thursday 09 June 2011 07:57:17 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On 06/09/11 09:36, ext Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> [snip] 
> > cmake was declarative when it was started, but became more and more
> > imperative.
> 
> like qmake and about every other build tool that evolved from a
> particular project's build system.

For me this is a clear sign that the declarative approach is not the right one 
for a build system, but an utopia.

Just my two logs in the fire :-)
 
> > E.g. when you say it should be declaration oder independent:
> > add_subdirectory() was added because the order-independent subdirs() was
> > not good enough for KDE.
> 
> an ugly workaround for the failure to add a facility to adequately
> represent build order requirements in a declarative way.
> [snip]

-- 
Hugo Parente Lima
INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
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