Greetings all! I've been sold on cmake. From what I gather, it's hands down better than automake and family. However, I do have a problem with not having a configure script.
A couple of the main benefits of having a configure script are letting the user/package maintainer choose portions of a project to compile or exclude from compilation, as well as choosing alternate locations for libraries/includes/installations, both of which are rather important. Without a configure script all package maintainers for red hat/fedora, debian/ubuntu, etc will have to learn all the ins and outs of cmake and spend oodles of time setting variables and passing -D switches to cmake. So my question to everyone is, is there already a replacement configure system/script that mimics or replaces the configure scripts created by autotools? The KDE folks wrote a very simple configure script by hand it seems, which replaces rudimentary options such as --libdir and such, which is a start but not nearly complete enough to actually replace autoconf's configure scripts. Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. j _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
