Brad, I can see the reasoning, except for the fact that cmake completely ignores the settings and environment variables relevant to the selected toolchain. Respecting the prefix variable, would be the minimal concession to "Unix".
Bill, "MinGW Makefiles" is useless, since it is even more windows, since it use cmd.exe and mingw32-make.exe. That is ok, since that is what a vanilla MinGW environment is. MSYS Makefiles is basically identical to Unix Makefiles, so I see no difference (as seen from the outside). Regards, Sean Farrell On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoff...@kitware.com>wrote: > On 5/17/2013 10:04 AM, Sean Farrell wrote: > >> Hallo CMake developers, >> >> could somebody please explain to me the rationale why "Unix Makefiles" >> installs by default under MSys to %ProgramFile% ? If I selected the >> generator to be "MinGW Makefiles" I would have understood. I would have >> have remotely understood that the "MSys Makefiles" have this behavior. >> But in the case of "Unix Makefiles" I totally am lost on any logic. >> >> If you ask cmake the description for "Unix Makefiles" is: >> >> *Generates standard UNIX makefiles.* >> * >> >> * >> What it standard about "C:/Program Files (x86)"? If you have found a >> POSIX compliant system which contains that path as a standard location >> for programs, I would like to see it. In addition cmake also ignores the >> rather standard "prefix" variable, with which you can alter the install >> location (even without rerunning configure, if you happen to have one). >> (Don't bother, I can read documentation, I know how to alter the install >> location.) >> >> I see the current behavior as a bug. Either you update >> the description of the generator to "Generates makefiles that behave >> like standard UNIX makefiles, until you execute the install target" or >> use the rather update the generator to actually "Generates standard UNIX >> makefiles." >> >> > I use that generator with gmake and the visual studio compiler. So, it is > unix makfiles but windows everything else. If you want Msys or Mingw then > you can get POSIX's stuff. That is the rationale. Perhaps the name is > confusing. > > -Bill > > > -- > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/** > opensource/opensource.html<http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html> > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/**CMake_FAQ<http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ> > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-**developers<http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers> >
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