One way to get the "optional" packages compiled is to add something
like the following to your cmakelists.txt file:
OPTION(BUILD_FOO "Option to build Foo subproject" ON)
OPTION(BUILD_BAR "option to build Bar subproject" OFF)
IF (BUILD_FOO)
ADD_SUBDIRECTORY( ${Foo_Dir} )
ENDIF (BUILD_FOO)
IF (BUILD_BAR)
ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(${Bar_DIR} )
ENDIF (BUILD_BAR)
Then, if you _really_ wanted to, you could have a simple bash script
which lets someone set these values by taking arguments then passing
those to cmake using the -Dlibdir="your/path/to/lib" syntax. Just
running ccmake is probably quicker although can not be "automated".
Just my 2 cents..
--
Mike Jackson Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services
On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:27 PM, J wrote:
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
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