RFC: A Configure Wrapper

[Alexander Neundorf]

Am Sonntag 02 Juli 2006 07:25 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
> Am Sonntag, 2. Juli 2006 06:08 schrieb Michael Pyne:
> > It sounds useful to me if it does nothing more than transform
> > --prefix=foo and --disable-debug to the CMake equivalents.  And I don't
> > see a reason to force people to have to read CMake documentation when
> > ./configure && make && make install works for 95% of the other software
> > out there.
>
> Yeah, but for KDE it will be ./configure  && cd build  && make && make
> install
>
> So we already have the first difference you have to read about. And if
> you're there, you can just as well go the full route. I'd vote against the
> introduction of this placebo script. I'd rather add a configure script that
> will output the cmake command to call. So if you
> go ./configure --prefix /usr, it will say "KDE does not use autoconf
> anymore, next time use cmake -D..." (and I do have to admit I don't know
> the exact D options, --prefix is easier :)

Yes, this sounds good.

Here's the intro:
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDECMakeIntro#id140643

Bye
Alex
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