[Rpm-ecosystem] libhif, and grand plans

Honza Šilhan jsilhan at redhat.com
Fri Jul 24 15:48:40 UTC 2015


> From: "Richard Hughes" <hughsient at gmail.com>
> > and everything (including libhif) is
> > using CMake (which makes it much easier to integrate into other projects),
> 
> Can you elaborate why cmake makes it easier than just shipping a
> pkgconfig file? The build system of the used library should make no
> effect on the consuming project.

Mismatch doesn't seem good to me. We should have just one build tool otherwise it
won't generate proper build subdirs (at least cmake). Hawkey, librepo, libcomps,
libunfi and libsolv are taking advantage of CMake. Libhif is using Autools.

Honza


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