Re: Fwd: [CMake] Adding cross-compiler support to CMake ... (fwd)

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Michael Casadevall wrote: My intent here is not to start a flamewar between autotools and cmake, In some cases, autotools is the proper tool vs cmake due to cross-compiling (which will hopefully fixed) and the fact that you need the cmake executable to build any CMake package. autotools configure script merely needs a shell interpreter, What do you mean "merely" needs a shell interpreter?  For a fair chunk of embedded devices out there, that's tantamount to saying that the Titanic "merely" needs to pull into port.  There are 3 cases for embedded devices: - systems with a Bourne shell and ccmake available - systems with a Bourne shell available - systems without any kind of shell, or really any kind of resources Yes, Autoconf has more cross-compilation reach than CMake at present, but it hardly covers everything. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

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