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

[William A. Hoffman]

At 03:55 PM 9/6/2006, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>Michael Casadevall wrote: 
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>>>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, 
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>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:
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>- 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
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>Yes, Autoconf has more cross-compilation reach than CMake at present, but it hardly covers everything.
Autoconf may need only shell, but CMake only needs a C++ compiler.  Which if you are
building a c++ program, you should already have, but you are not always
going to have a shell.

As for cross-compilation support, I have never done much with it, what tools does
autoconf provide to support cross-compiling?  If someone who has used autoconf for
cross compiling could explain how it works with autoconf, it would be helpful when
we add support in CMake.

-Bill