Patrice Dumas wrote:
Cmake is not covered by any standard (that I know about).
What's your point? Is the autotools suite "covered by a standard"?
Autotools is theoretically portable to any POSIX system. In reality,
since most systems have bugs and idiosyncrasies, porting to a totally
new platform is going to involve some work.
CMake is theoretically portable to any system with a C++ compiler.
Let's do some score-keeping:
Mainstream POSIX systems:
- CMake: already works
- autotools: already works
Winner: tie
New POSIX systems:
- CMake: has to deal with idiosyncrasies in the compiler and possibly make.
- autotools: has to deal with idiosyncrasies in the compiler, shell,
sed/awk/m4/etc, and possibly make.
Winner: CMake
Non-POSIX systems:
- CMake: have to find the compiler and understand how to use it, have to
understand a make system to generate "makefiles" (or an equivalent).
- autotools: not going to happen :-).
Winner: CMake
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