> do you need a static lib ? > I saw some distri are packaging it. Presumably the static lib should go in a -devel package? I wouldn't want to link cmake to the static lib though, that would defeat the purpose of de-vendoring it and using separately packaged dependencies.
> builds successfully out of box for Cygwin with default build > script provided by Kitware. The default build script uses vendored dependencies which is understandable for Kitware's own reproducibility and testing burden, but generally not the way distros prefer to build cmake. Better to follow the example of the way the existing package is built, but updating the patches and accounting for new dependencies.
