> Sorry to be confusing. People who wants to compile thrift needs automake and > autoconf right ? Only if they are compiling from the repository. If you download a release tarball or instant release, you do not need automake or autoconf.
> Another good feature of cmake is the generation of out of source build. We > can easily generate the binaries in the directory we want doing thing like Automake supports this as well. mkdir thrift-build cd thrift-build /path/to/thrift/configure --without-java --without-py --without-ruby --without-csharp make > I will try things out with cmake and thrift. I will try to convert it and > see all options available to us. That sounds great. We can definitely commit it under contrib even if we decide not to use it as the primary build system. --David
