On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 07:55:28PM +0200, Stephan Witt wrote: > > > Am 04.06.2016 um 10:15 schrieb Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>: > > > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Georg Baum > > <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > >> One thing I noticed recently is the > >> version suffix: Which autotools you can use an arbitrary one, with cmake > >> you > >> can only toggle between a predefined one or none at all, which is a problem > >> if you want to compare two different builds of the same version with > >> separate configurations (e.g. qt4/qt5 or different compiler settings). > >> > > If moving to cmake definitively would imply losing version suffix > > functionality, this would be a big issue for my packaging arrangements > > for Ubuntu builds. > > +1 > > On Mac the version suffix is essential too.
I just want to make sure you saw Kornel's reply to that. I don't know if it addresses your needs or not. > I just tried to build a Mac application with cmake and failed. What was the error? > It looks like a lot of work or to learn to make this working. This might be a reason to stop this discussion here. You already do a huge favor by taking care of the Mac builds. It would not make sense to make it more difficult. I was hoping that in the long-run it would actually be easier for you, but perhaps the transition would be too frustrating and time-consuming. Scott
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