Cropi
Added building with CMake and packaging using CPack
Hi,
Thank you for your PR. We appreciate it.
Just one quick question, have you experienced any trouble using autotools ?
have you experienced any trouble using autotools ?
Both yes and no.
No: I know the generic workflow of autotools: autoreconf -i; ./configure --help; examine available flags; ./configure --wanted-flags; make; DESTDIR=./destDir make install; package from the dest dir manually (I have written (but now it is inoperational, it has been broken somewhen, I have no time to fix it currently) a tool wrapping multiple build systems and generating the binary packages).
Yes: autotools is always a pain to deal with. It is hard to edit the scripts, it is slow, too tied to bash, it doesn't support smarter build backens like ninja. I am also not enough familar to it, so my estimation were biased.
Also I should mention that I had to manually edit autotools scripts to disable building of the docs, because to build docs large deps are needed.
Also I should mention that I got a big problem with the lack of libusbguard-dev Debian package, so I had to download usbguard sources and create a temporary replacement for one. The proper long-term solution is of course to make distros to shio this package too.
I also should mention that neither of the built binaries worked well for me. My desktop environment is KDE and the OS (currently, I guess quite soon it will be 21.10) is Kubuntu 21.04. First I noticed that the notifier systemd service has been started but I got no notifications on USB devices attachment. After a few restarts the service stopped starting too. Currently I have no time to investigate this issue.