On 12/19/2010 02:29 PM, James Turner wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2010, at 18:48, Jari Häkkinen wrote:
>
>> Does this indicate that autotools support will be discontinued for fg et al?
> I don't think so - there's plenty of people who prefer the autotools to Cmake
> :) But, it does mean I personally hopefully won't need to touch GNU m4 again,
> which pleases me. For people who currently use autoconf, CMake offers no gain
> - it's the people who use 'something else' who are more likely to benefit,
> since CMake lets us automate steps for those environments (eg, creating
> config.h and version.h) without requiring the user to install additional
> tools.
>
>>> My motivation for creating these was my Mac Xcode projects becoming
>>> outdated as the tree (and config) evolves - so I'll be maintaining
>>> these, but of course if you're adding or removing files from the
>>> build, I would be delighted if you update the CMakeLists.txt file at
>>> the same time as you update the Makefile.am.
>> The current autotools set up builds everything on Mac, no need for Xcode.
> Yes, but for actually working with the sources on a daily basis, I prefer to
> use Xcode projects, for the cross-referencing, completion and debugging
> features. I have been using projects which originally come from
> Macflightgear.org, but have been gradually modified and tweaked for two
> years, and had grown some odd problems. Also Xcode 4 is looming, with a new
> project file format, so creating the CMake projects was a useful way to get
> projects files generated and maybe help some other IDE users out.
>
> James
>
Cmake also lacks "make -n install" which tells where thing are going to
go such as /usr/bin, /bin or /usr/local/bin and "make distclean" is
missing. And it seems to take a longer time to compile.
The directories can be set with "ccmake" "t" "c" and "g"
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