601738 – media-tv/kodi-17.0 and later should use cmake instead of autotools

Bug 601738 - media-tv/kodi-17.0 and later should use cmake instead of autotools

Summary: media-tv/kodi-17.0 and later should use cmake instead of autotools

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	SpanKY

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Reported:	2016-12-05 22:24 UTC by Craig Andrews
Modified:	2017-01-10 19:45 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Craig Andrews gentoo-dev

2016-12-05 22:24:29 UTC

Upstream is no longer support autotools and plans to remove it entirely in the future. They strongly advise the use of cmake instead.

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10922#issuecomment-264541902
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/10429

Comment 1 Craig Andrews gentoo-dev

2016-12-05 22:33:07 UTC

I don't really know a lot about autotools or cmake, but I'll give it a try :-)

Here's my work in progress:
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/3027

Any help would be greatly appreciated.