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author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2018-04-24 21:27:51 -0700 |
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committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2018-04-25 04:29:25 +0000 |
commit | 9e8f8921a3fb61f0170776505ed80f3989019cf3 (patch) | |
tree | 8febdddb48a7ee11f84cc28572af80568213f26d | |
parent | 372b8202555806287dc38ba35e5df10c5d82102a (diff) |
Get rid of a no-longer-needed README file.
Now that we only support CMake, that file would be reduced to
Wireshark is built using CMake.
which doesn't justify keeping it around.
Change-Id: I07d0ce0689ab274fd6c7dff3d8e5a8b31e110cbb
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/27139
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
-rw-r--r-- | doc/README.build-system | 21 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.build-system b/doc/README.build-system deleted file mode 100644 index c322aef7ad..0000000000 --- a/doc/README.build-system +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -Wireshark can be built using either CMake or autotools. - -CMake is supported on all platforms and required for building on Windows and -macOS. - -Autotools is supported on UNIX and UNIX-like systems (other than macOS). Generally -we prefer to require a portable make rather than writing portable makefiles[1]. -That means GNU Make. See also [2] for all the pitfalls involved in writing portable -makefiles. However requiring very recent GNU Make versions is discouraged -out of ease-of-use concerns. Currently Wireshark should build with any -reasonably recent GNU Make version (released say in the last ten years). - -You are encouraged to report any autotools portability problems in the Wireshark -bug tracker[3] but please be advised that vanilla POSIX make is generally not -sufficiently powerful (or convenient) to build a large software project like -Wireshark so GNU Make is the target implementation. In particular it is an -explicit goal to support VPATH builds. - -[1]http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/rules-of-makefiles/ -[2]https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/html_node/Portable-Make.html#Portable-Make -[3]https://bugs.wireshark.org |