Fwd: [CMake] Adding cross-compiler support to CMake ... (fwd)

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Michael Casadevall wrote:
>>
>> My intent here is not to start a flamewar between autotools and 
>> cmake, In some cases, autotools is the proper tool vs cmake due to 
>> cross-compiling (which will hopefully fixed) and the fact that you 
>> need the cmake executable to build any CMake package. autotools 
>> configure script merely needs a shell interpreter,

What do you mean "merely" needs a shell interpreter?  For a fair chunk 
of embedded devices out there, that's tantamount to saying that the 
Titanic "merely" needs to pull into port.  There are 3 cases for 
embedded devices:

- systems with a Bourne shell and ccmake available
- systems with a Bourne shell available
- systems without any kind of shell, or really any kind of resources

Yes, Autoconf has more cross-compilation reach than CMake at present, 
but it hardly covers everything.



Cheers,
Brandon Van Every

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