[cmake-developers] Future of ccmake and cmake-gui

[Simon Lees]

On 17/08/17 19:53, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2017-08-17 19:29+0930 Simon Lees wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> On 17/08/17 19:01, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote:
>>>> And Mac doesn't have configure/autotools by defaul.
>>>
>>> but... "configure" has nothing to do with autotools.
>>> It's just a shell script (which is sometimes generated *from* autotools;
>>> this is not the case with Qt AFAIK).
>>>
>>
>> Yes Qt's configure is a stand alone script unrelated to autotools. Qt
>> uses its own build system thats shipped with it.
> 
> I can confirm that.  Also, I have built Qt5 a couple of times, and I
> was not particularly happy with the regidity of their build system
> when attempting to drop components I was not using.  And I was also
> not happy with how the options for that configuration script changed
> so drastically from one Qt5 version to the next. So it is always a
> big disappointment to me that Qt5 does not have a flexible,
> user-friendly CMake-based build system following what the KDE
> developers have done for years.
> 
> So this is another "minor" project for Alex.  :-)
> 
The way we tended to handle that at my previous job was to build almost
everything (except the slow stuff like web) then only ship to our
customers the libs we actually used.

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