[ros-dev] Re: 12739: Add sample build script.

[Royce Mitchell III]

Martin Fuchs wrote:

>Hi,
>
>if you want to replace the Makefile build system, please consider using bjam:
>http://boost.org/tools/build/jam_src/
>
>It has the following advantages:
>
>- automatic dependency checking
>
>- resolves dependencies in memory without invoking
>  multiple levels of Makefiles
>
>- supports nearly every compiler toolset out there, see:
>  http://boost.org/more/getting_started.html#Tools
>  
>
If you want, you're welcome to setup a vote to decide what we want to 
transition to, but at the moment almost nobody wants to introduce new 
external dependencies.