Luke-Jr [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-07-02 🗒️ Summary of this message: A discussion ...

📅 Original date posted:2011-07-02
🗒️ Summary of this message: A discussion about the use of autotools versus cmake as a build system, with concerns about cmake not following the standard build procedure.
📝 Original message:On Saturday, July 02, 2011 12:50:14 PM John Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > On Saturday, July 02, 2011 3:29:04 AM John Smith wrote:
> > > Why again did we choose for autotools as future build system instead of
> > > cmake?
> >
> > I don't really care much either way, but cmake doesn't follow the
> > standard build procedure (./configure && make && make install), though I
> > imagine ./configure could be emulated with some script.
>
> It would change the sequence to
>
> cmake . && make && make install
>
> So a shell script named 'configure' that starts 'cmake .' is the most easy
> case :-) Probably it'd also need to pass through some command line args,
> for example --prefix.

And --datadir --mandir --randomobscurecrap CXXFLAGS=-O9, etc
Don't forget --help listing all the useful options... that's the big thing I
miss with CMake-stuff.