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<p dir="auto">After so many years and so many different build tools I always come back to autotools+gnulib. It's so highly tuneable and makes your software so portable. The cost is it's configuration slowness and you it's hard for beginners. It normally is easily debugable, since it breaks down to a simple (but large) shell script (./configure).</p>
<p dir="auto">The GnuTLS devs have a pretty good knowledge of autotools+gnulib, AFAICS. People who just want to build+use GnuTLS should <em>always</em> build from the tarball. Doing so does <em>not</em> require autotools at all. The ./configure step just needs a POSIX compatible shell.</p>
<p dir="auto">But anyways, I appreciate it to have a parallel build system like CMake or Meson. Which could help building on Mobile OSes (and/or Windows ?). I see at least two requirements here, a) a second build system <em>must not</em> interfere with the current one, and b) someone has to maintain it (regular work until the end of the GnuTLS days).</p>
<p dir="auto">I assume a) is not that hard. But what about b) ?</p>
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