Cmake is a reverse approach compared to autotools. You need cmake installed to configure the software. The system to build (make or something else) is somewhat OS dependent. autotool generate a script and you don’t need auto tool installed on the target system.
The main issue that you need to bootstrap it. i.e. cmake is used to build cmake. Francois > On 6/02/2015, at 19:54, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote: > > On 2015-02-05 23:06, William wrote: >> I wonder what is the latest on Sage and cmake? Ondrej Certik was >> just telling me about csympy, which uses cmake, and wondered whether >> that would be a deal break for inclusion of csympy as standard in Sage. >> Definitely 4 years ago it would have been. > > Isn't cmake more like automake, i.e. run at packaging-time, not build-time? > > I don't know how reliable/portable cmake is, but generally I don't like "yet > another build system". IMHO, nothing beats autotools and SCons is a disaster > (but I'm sure other people have other opinions on this). I don't know where > on this scale CMake lies. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
