On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:09:57PM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > > expect to see third-party flavors of CMake (the way you see various > vendor versions of e.g. sed, which have no relation to each other > besides the degree to which they implement the POSIX spec for such tool). Why so? There could be a solaris cmake, an IRIX cmake, an HP-UX cmake... > Again, *what* "vendor cmake"? There is no such thing. There could be. Why are there vendor sh, sed and awk? > Cost of porting CMake: on POSIX platforms, about the same as autotools > or better, and unlike autotools, doable for non-UNIX-like platforms. All the GNU POSIX utilities are portable and have been ported on many platforms. I don't know exactly where to check, but I guess that there were even VMS versions of GNU sed, awk and so on, and also apollo versions and so on. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
