[CMake] using cmake for mozilla tree?

[Gerrit P. Haase]

William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 01:17 PM 11/9/2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
> 
>>Nothing special, it is just that they use their own handcrafted Makefile
>>system and have just partially converted to autoconf.
>>
>>We want to port Gnome to Cygwin and there are several packages
>>requiring mozilla, eg. the help system browser will require the mozilla
>>engine in future.
> 
> 
> Does that mean Gnome will use cmake?

Gnome is very portable with its build system, they use automake / 
autoconf /libtool which is ok with me and with Cygwin, but Mozilla 
doesn't use automake or libtool, they use (partially) autoconf.  I have 
problems with this, I need to manually edit all the Makefiles in 
subdirectories where autoconf is not used.  I cannot believe that it 
works on other platforms, however they release new builds quite often, 
so probably the build makers have a lot of local havcks in their trees 
which is not in the repository.

I want to build Mozilla, I have it already running, but there are 
problems when I want to build eg. just firefox, I have problems with 
including the security parts because this is one of the subdirectories 
where no autoconf is used, and as soon as make arrives at this directory 
it barfs at me with error, 'cannot find bla' and so on.

It is a mess, at least the whole tree should be converted to one system, 
so it would probably work for me too if they would use autoconf in all 
separate projects included in the tree.

At least I have a version of GTKMozEmbed now which will work for Gnome, 
however having Mozilla as full featured browser application would be 
nice.  I think it is even faster than the native Windows port when 
running on Cygwin/X!

Gerrit
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