docs: Building with Makefile

[Andreas Schneider]

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 20:48:14 CET Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 05:48:17PM +0100, Andreas Schneider via samba-
technical wrote:
> > On Saturday, 6 January 2018 03:18:11 CET Richard Sharpe via
> > samba-technical
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Andreas Schneider via samba-technical
> > > 
> > > <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > > > On Friday, 5 January 2018 19:56:02 CET Björn Jacke wrote:
> > > >> The branch, master has been updated
> > > >> 
> > > >>        via  3cbeaf4 docs-xml: add basic Makefile dependencies for
> > > >>        targets
> > > >> 
> > > >> that use xsltproc via  9b27948 docs-xml: set a reasonable
> > > >> XML_CATALOG_FILES
> > > >> in Makefile via  a2f5b3b docs-xml: generate build/catalog.xml via
> > > >> Makefile
> > > >> target from  2245a4b autobuild: fix quoting of --restrict-tests
> > > >> 
> > > >> https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=shortlog;h=master
> > > >> 
> > > >> 
> > > >> - Log
> > > >> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >> commit 3cbeaf40937082bd7072d715ae02aa0989835432
> > > >> Author: Björn Jacke <bjacke at samba.org>
> > > >> Date:   Thu Jan 4 16:35:12 2018 +0100
> > > >> 
> > > >>     docs-xml: add basic Makefile dependencies for targets that use
> > > >>     xsltproc
> > > > 
> > > > Why do you build with Makefile? Is the stuff in waf so bad?
> > > 
> > > Waf is a heap of shit that invalidates all my other knowledge about
> > > autotools and removes functionality we used to have, like out-of-tree
> > > builds of VFS modules.
> > 
> > Hey, I was the one who wanted to use CMake but then someone told me that
> > waf is better than butter on bread. Now we maintain a broken build system
> > which doesn't work with python3.
> > 
> > But hey we have install_with_python.sh which downloads and builds python2
> > for us, that's future proof!
> > 
> > :-P
> 
> IMHO waf has not been a success, even though Metze likes
> the fact it is raw python :-). I don't think anyone expected
> that python2 and python3 would be entirely different languages :-).

Distritubtions are working on deprecating python2. This means it will be 
completely removed.