Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Alexander Dymo]

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 00:30, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> I also had a look at it and then I remembered why I didn't like it. It
> feels like writing a program which compiles my program instead of declaring
> some facts in order to have another tool compile my program.
Yes, cmake looks better from this perspective.

> May I mention that while cmake is being built, a libcmakesomething.a is
> also built, which contains all the required functions (source files,
> dependancies, additional libs, compiler switches, etc.). Although it is
> currently not planned to turn this into a shared libcmake.so, the code is
> there and could simply be used.
Even if we don't reuse the code built in those libraries, cmake parser
would be quite easy to write. It has quite concise and well documented syntax.

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Alexander Dymo
ICST Department, National University of Shipbuilding, Mykolayiv, Ukraine