<![CDATA[i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again]]>i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/e7ec02e1-dea1-4b5c-843b-aff81a062371/i-m-never-writing-3300-lines-of-cmake-in-a-row-againRSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 18:13:52 GMTMon, 18 May 2026 18:50:53 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:58:06 GMT]]>@whitequark @meena you will certainly not regret writing 30-40 lines of makefile

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/azonenberg/statuses/116597108646850949https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/azonenberg/statuses/116597108646850949Mon, 18 May 2026 18:58:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:57:20 GMT]]>@whitequark @meena I apply roughly the same limit to shell scripts, along with a prohibition on any control flow more complex than - at a stretch - two layers of nested if statements.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/richardstephens/statuses/116597105674688073https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/richardstephens/statuses/116597105674688073Mon, 18 May 2026 18:57:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:57:12 GMT]]>@whitequark yes. i've tended to do the makefile thing because it's less confusing if i know how it all works. i am not sure i know how anything in cmake works despite how much i've used it.

i've been using meson recently, but i haven't pushed it nearly as hard as i push make. i don't hate it yet, so that's something.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116597105121869428https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116597105121869428Mon, 18 May 2026 18:57:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:55:39 GMT]]>@dysfun well, yes, i pride myself on writing best-in-class cmake, not average cmake

the difference is that you can make well-factored cmake files that grow with the project, but if you try to do this faithfully with makefiles you end with... cmake, or something similar

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116597099057912164https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116597099057912164Mon, 18 May 2026 18:55:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:54:43 GMT]]>@meena i think if a makefile fits on a single screenful it might be okay. if it doesn't it definitely isn't

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116597095346743705https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116597095346743705Mon, 18 May 2026 18:54:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:54:27 GMT]]>@whitequark Yeah, 15-100 should be enough for everybody

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piaille.fr/users/colin_mcmillen/statuses/116597094294251594https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://piaille.fr/users/colin_mcmillen/statuses/116597094294251594Mon, 18 May 2026 18:54:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:53:57 GMT]]>@whitequark sounds like the average cmake project to me

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116597092382964056https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116597092382964056Mon, 18 May 2026 18:53:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:53:22 GMT]]>@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Oh god, don't put them all in a row! Use line breaks 😧

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zwiebel.social/notes/amf4m9n37hnl00c8https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://zwiebel.social/notes/amf4m9n37hnl00c8Mon, 18 May 2026 18:53:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:53:01 GMT]]>@dysfun the hard part was divining out what ~1500 lines of incomprehensible makefile spaghetti did, with its definition-redefinition-reredefinition of variables, dozens of instances of CFLAGS_WITHOUT_THIS_ONE_THING = $(filter ,), and implicit behaviors that some other thing half the build system across critically relies on

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116597088686815138https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116597088686815138Mon, 18 May 2026 18:53:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:52:51 GMT]]>@whitequark i'm happy at 0

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://is-a.cat/users/ar/statuses/116597088005362164https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://is-a.cat/users/ar/statuses/116597088005362164Mon, 18 May 2026 18:52:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:51:28 GMT]]>@whitequark i hope to never write 3300 lines of cmake total in the rest of my life tbh

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116597082581875506https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/dysfun/statuses/116597082581875506Mon, 18 May 2026 18:51:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to i'm never writing 3300 lines of cmake in a row again on Mon, 18 May 2026 18:51:25 GMT]]>there's an ideal amount of cmake someone should write in a row and it's definitely less than that

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116597082365527876https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.treehouse.systems/users/whitequark/statuses/116597082365527876Mon, 18 May 2026 18:51:25 GMT