Ken Moffat wrote:
Weird. What I find weirder is the 'nix developers who prefer cmake.
A couple of differences that may drive preferences:
autoconf/automake are basically m4 based systems. The syntax is a bit
weird, but its been around for a long time.
cmake uses a c-type syntax which is reasonably easy to read.
auto* uses configure.ac -> configure
configure is a shell script that can be read/modified, but not easily.
It uses Makefile.in to generate a Makefile.
cmake is a one step program to generate a Makefile.
To a great extent, I think it is a matter of what you are used to using.
For smaller projects, it probably doesn't make any difference. For
larger ones, I don't think there is any good solution.
-- Bruce
Note: I used to work with Qt and they use qmake. Actually, I found that
to be relatively easy to both read and write. However it is Qt specific
and we didn't need to check a system for available tools.
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