[Bitcoin-development] Reconsider build system change?

[Douglas Huff]

Cmake is just as bad as autotools, just with a different syntax and more "buzz" behind it right this second. I don't see any advantage to it over autotools unless you're not familiar with either and even then I wouldn't really call it an advantage. It's just different.

It also requires a dependency that isn't installed by default anywhere, as already mentioned, and is less known outside of some obscure qt/kde circles and so finding people who are familiar with it and are willing to maintain it is more difficult. 

Autotools is the devil you know.

You'll probably throw out that mysql and compiz have switched to it, but really, those projects aren't something that should be emulated by anyone. Ever.

On Jul 2, 2011, at 11:50 AM, John Smith wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, July 02, 2011 3:29:04 AM John Smith wrote:
> > Why again did we choose for autotools as future build system instead of
> > cmake?
> 
> I don't really care much either way, but cmake doesn't follow the standard
> build procedure (./configure && make && make install), though I imagine
> ./configure could be emulated with some script.
> 
> It would change the sequence to
> 
> cmake . && make && make install
> 
> So a shell script named 'configure' that starts 'cmake .' is the most easy case :-) Probably it'd also need to pass through some command line args, for example --prefix.
> 
> JS
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