[CMake] What does `cross-platform' mean?

[Mike Arthur]

On Friday 07 November 2008 11:50:04 Jed Brown wrote:
> It sounds like these all satisfy the predicate that you have shared libs
> and you only have one version of each package installed (or you're
> trying to find the version in the standard location).
Sure and I'd argue most people are in that group.

> I really don't intend to bash CMake.  *I* like it much better than the
> alternatives, but I'm trying to convince others and it's hard for me to
> sell CMake while finding that many modules (most of which I don't
> actually care about) are systematically broken in niche environments
> which are disproportionately popular on clusters, an important
> demographic for my projects.
Cool, I just objected to your claims that it isn't "properly" cross-platform 
because that really hasn't met what I've encountered at all.

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