Bug 601738

Summary:	media-tv/kodi-17.0 and later should use cmake instead of autotools
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Craig Andrews <candrews>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aklhfex, candrews, media-video
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.