On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 01:11:58PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > One thing autotools does that many cmake setups don't (but could) is > 'make distcheck' which does > > make dist > > unpacks it > > does an objdir build > > runs make check in that > > does so in a way that the just-built libs are used and installed libs > are ignored > > If that already works in cmake, fine, and if not I think that needs > fixing before getting rid of autotools. > > The other thing is cross builds, and I have no idea what the state of > that is in the geos cmake build. Often I have found that build systems > proposed as a replacement for autotools don't do that.
I suggest proponents do address the points above. We don't want to loose functionality for being friendly to Windows (isn't this the main reason why CMake was introduced?) --strk; _______________________________________________ geos-devel mailing list geos-devel@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel
