On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:42 -0400, Kevin Cozens wrote: > On 12-08-06 04:56 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Now my page ( http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/autohell/ ) gives many > > valid reasons why CMake is superior and GNU Autotools > > is inferior, and as a result concludes it is valid to nickname Autotools "Autohell" > > as a derogatory name, just based on their own deficiencies. > > Some good information on that web page, Shlomi. One comment about the page. > It has a heading of "Disadvantages of GNU Autotools" but the points below > start by mentioning an advantage of CMake instead of a disadvantage of the > Autotools. > > One advantage of CMake you didn't list is how it can do builds to a > sub-directory of the source tree. I found this helpful when building a > standard version of Blender and an experimental version with some added > options without having to copy the entire source tree to a separate > directory to do the two builds. You can do that with autofoo as well, by calling the configure script from the sub-directory: mkdir foo pushd foo ../configure ... make ... popd Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Wilhelmstraße 22 / D-71229 Leonberg nils@xxxxxxxxx / nils@xxxxxxxxxx PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011 Ever noticed that common sense isn't really all that common? _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
