On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:16:44AM -0400, Pierre-Alexandre St-Jean wrote:
> Sorry to be confusing. People who wants to compile thrift needs automake and
> autoconf right ?
No, only maintainers need automake and autoconf, all you need to compile
from a source distribution is sh, gcc and make.
> Cmake generates the makefile so once it is generated no need of it anymore.
> So when delivering the tarball you only have to deliver an already generated
> makefile.
I'm not exactly certain how a pre-generated makefile would work. Does the
makefile conform to the bsd or gnu make conventions, how do I know it will
work on an extremely old SunOS box, or on a windows 7 box. The only way
I can see this working is separate tarballs for each platform which would
make creating new distributions even more slow than it is now.
> 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
> :
>
> mkdir thrift-build
> cd thrift-build
>
> cmake ../thrift-source
> make
I'm not sure why you would want this, but you can do this sort of thing with
autotools if you want. Its more common to want to control where something
is installed, what features are included in the build, or even to cross compile
for a different architecture. All things that configure supports. Also,
the autotools support DESTDIR which makes packaging as rpms and debs
extremely easy.
> I will try things out with cmake and thrift. I will try to convert it and
> see all options available to us.
I still am wondering the same thing David is, seems like users would still
require that cmake is installed, in other words if they start with a tarball
distribution how do they build install with cmake?
Here's how it works with configure
% wget 'http:/.../thrift.tar.gz'
% tar xvfz thrift.tar.gz
% cd thrift
% ./configure # pure sh
% make # should work with any make on system
% sudo make install # install location can be altered with --prefix
# added to configure, also can be installed
# under an alternate / with DESTDIR
What does this look like using cmake?
-Anthony
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