On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Anthony Molinaro < antho...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> > 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. > > would be the same as it is , it is a comform makefile. The thing is if you want to compile with say MSVC you can generate another makefile. > > 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'll look at the opportunities. This is only for me to get to know thrift source code. > > 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? > > It would look the same (i think). let me test it and I will return to you with that. > -Anthony > > > -- Pierre-Alexandre St-Jean
