[Scummvm-devel] Ports and their custom build systems. Do we need them?

[Joost Peters]

For the PSP port there is not really anything you can do with the 
Makefile that you can't do with configure.

At the time we added support to configure I didn't see a good reason to 
remove the custom Makefile, and as long as it doesn't take much to 
maintain it, we may as well keep it.

Yotam, who recently did the excellent work on plugin support, said he 
prefers to build via the custom Makefile since he apparently has some 
problems with configure on MingW, though I don't know if those problems 
are with MingW or our configure script.

Personally I've been preferring the configure approach, and is what I 
use for the official builds, so it should be in line with buildbot 
generated builds.

Regards,
Joost


Max Horn wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I noticed that several ports which now support configure based  
> building (e.g. DC, PSP) still seem to maintain and use their custom  
> build systems, too. That made me wonder why this is the case: Is it  
> more convenient for some reason? If so, which? Is the configure based  
> build process lacking certain abilities? If so, which? What else is  
> making porters want to keep and maintain their custom build systems?
> 
> Would be nice to hear about this from porters, as my hope is that  
> based on this valuable input we can further improve our primary build  
> system, ideally being able to supersede the custom ones completely.  
> Which I consider desirable, as it reduced "code" duplication, and also  
> ensures that the buildbot produced binaries are in sync with what  
> porters do. Ideally it would also make life easier for porters. I  
> understand that the latter may not be the case right now, to the  
> contrary, but we can only improve it if we get feedback :).
> 
> Cheers,
> Max
> 
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