Dear Ali, I am glad you are making progress. Sadly I don't yet know cmake. Please consider the systemd wip branch. It might be wise to leave autotools around a little longer, until all functionality is in the cmake. Best regards Owen On 07/30/2015 09:01 PM, Ali Maredia wrote: > After discussing with several other Ceph developers and Sage, I wanted > to start a discussion about making CMake the primary build system for Ceph. > > CMake works just fine as it is (make -j4 on master with CMake builds > 350% faster than autotools!), but there's more work needed to make it > into a first-class build system. > > Short term (1-2 weeks): > - Making sure CMake works on all supported platforms: Centos7, RHEL7, > Ubuntu 14.04 & 12.04, Fedora 22, Debian Jessie, Debian Wheezy are the > target platforms I have noted to test on already. > - Adding a target similar to make check > - Creating CMake targets that build packages (such as for rpm or debian) > - Writing documentation for those who haven't used CMake before to smooth the > transition over > - Making sure no targets or dependencies are missing from the > current CMake build, and that CMake supports all current > targets, configurations and options > - Replacing the integration autotools has with any automated build/test > systems such as the gitbuilder > > Longer term (2-4 weeks): > - Removing the current autotools files, to avoid doubling build system > workload > - Adding more but shorter CMakeLists.txt files to a tree like structure > where a CMakeLists.txt would be in every subdirectory > > I'm already working on a target similar to the make check target, and plan > on working on the other short term goals over the next weeks and beyond. > > I wanted to get feedback from the community any reasons why someone started using > CMake but stopped (ex: lack of functionality), and more broadly, on what other > obstacles there might be for the transition. > > -Ali > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
