[CMake] Patch to apply! Changing the default name"CMakeLists.txt"! Introduction to "Common Build System"

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 15.01.08 12:05:36, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2008 11:46 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> > On 15.01.08 11:37:12, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> > > I'm unclear.  What is the strategic purpose of CBS?
> >
> > If I understood correctly, the purpose is to (at some point) build
> > foobar, including all deps completely with cbs.
> 
> But is it a "higher level" CMake variant, or is it a completely new
> build tool that sees CMake as merely 1 of many possible output
> targets?

No, AFAIU its using the CMake language to express how to build foo,
including building also bar, baz and boo which are direct or indirect
deps of foo.

> > To me this totally
> > sounds like Gentoo with cmake files as "emerge" replacement.
> 
> I'm reading http://linuxreviews.org/man/emerge/ and I don't understand
> how CMake could serve as an Emerge replacement.

What I meant is, it looks like cbs wants to use CMake to replace the
"normal" package manager in a source-based distro.

Andreas

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