On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:14:50PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote: > At Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:47:02 +0100, Benny Siegert <bsieg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Subject: Re: Portable Makefile ideas > > > > Perhaps take a look at CMake. I found it to be easier than expected, > > and it is common enough that package systems like pkgsrc support it > > directly. > > I see I'm late to the game here, but I'd like to try to dissuade anyone > who'll hear me out to avoid CMake in any way, shape, form, or use. > > It is a massive, ugly, inconsistent, and incomplete mess of C++ > spaghetti, and it does not do what you think it does, no matter what you > think it does, nor how well you think you know it.
I've spent a bit of time with CMake simply because it seems to be the native configuration/build tool for LLVM. From the surface on down it seems totally retrograde---I mean, what is that, m4 syntax? I agree that mk-configure is delightful. Highly recommended. Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.com Urbana, IL (217) 721-9981
