[CMake] General questions

Yang Zhang yanghatespam at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 17:24:37 EST 2008


Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Sonntag 24 Februar 2008 schrieb Yang Zhang:
>> I understand your point, but support for cmake is not as ubiquitous as
>> it is for autotools. For instance, a cross-platform build system I'm
>> using (a bitbake/openembedded derivative) does not support cmake. As
>> another example, a tool I use for best-effort management of software
>> packages (http://toastball.net/toast/) does not support cmake.
> 
> If it is derived from bitbake, why is it inferior to it? Bitbake supports any 
> kind of build method, not just autotools.
> 
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Yes, I could add a cmake-handling base script for bitbake; similarly, I 
could modify `toast` to work with cmake. My point is that support for 
cmake is not as ubiquitous as support for autotools.

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Yang Zhang
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