[CMake] Re: a ./configure shell script stub (William A. Hoffman)

[William A. Hoffman]

At 11:11 AM 5/30/2006, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>If I understood Bill correctly, the idea is to provide a special file which is read by cmake and which provides mappings between full cmake variable names and short command line parameters.
>Like:
>CMAKE_MAP(CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX prefix)
>
>so that cmake will be able to translate
>cmake <dir> --prefix=/opt/kde4 to cmake <dir> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/kde4

Yes, that is what I am talking about.  I don't think it will be hard to implement,
and I am sure any hard coded approach will be regretted a few months later.  

Also, 

cmake <dir> --help  (will print the help for the given project)


-Bill