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[Kristian Nielsen <knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian Convey <christian.convey@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I noticed that MariaDB is built (indirectly) with CMake on Windows,
> and with autotools on Linux.
>
> Why are both systems used?  I would have assumed that because CMake is
> pretty good at generating Makefiles on Linux and OS X, there would be
> little reason to continue using autotools.

This is legacy only.

>From MySQL 5.5 and MariaDB 5.5 on, only cmake is used.

 - Kristian.