Re: [tcpdump-security] [libpcap] Problem with version 1.9.0

[Jan Stary <hans () stare cz>]

On Jul 23 18:38:17, gert () greenie muc de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 09:35:30AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
> > Let's switch over to cmake as our official mechanism now... i.e. have
> > travis, etc. use it in preference to configure.
>
> From a sysadmin perspective, I find cmake to be a major annoyance
> (because it usually does not exist on systems where I want to install
> packages, and if your platform is not "mainstream i386/amd64", there's
> quite often no binary packages, so "go out and compile cmake" is it,
> then... like, FreeBSD/Sparc64).
>
> I do understand that this is not for me to decide and that you're
> fully free to ignore me, but I still wanted to say it so nobody can
> say afterwards "hey, we announced this on the list and nobody spoke
> up".
>
> (If you say "... use it in preference to configure" and configure stays
> around as fallback, I shut up and be happy :-) )

From both a sysadmin and user perspective, I find the GNU autotools
amd CMake a major annoyance. Would you please consider doing what e.g.
http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/configure does?

A simple, hand written shell script, with a set of obvious
{test,compat}-*.c helpers. No dependency on anything, orders
of multitude smaller and faster then a auto*-generated configure.

        Jan

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