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[Christian Convey <christian.convey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank goodness.  I also found autotools a lot more complicated to work
with than CMake.

This page is why I thought autotools are still being used:
https://kb.askmonty.org/en/what-tools-are-available-for-developing-on-the-mariadb-code/

Do you know to whose attention I should bring that out-dated page?

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Kristian Nielsen
<knielsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.