PROPOSAL: Use Cmake as the build system for Samba

tridge at samba.org tridge at samba.org
Thu Feb 18 14:54:11 MST 2010


Hi Jelmer,

 > Last I checked scons (a couple of years ago now), it was quite a nice
 > system (I much prefer it over CMake) but horribly slow for something
 > like Samba. I worked on a fork of Samba that used scons back then and
 > gave up on it halfway through because of this.

That was one of the reasons I suggested waf. It is a fork of SCons
that is (among other things) much faster. See:

  http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/bench.txt

Cheers, Tridge


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