Re: Autotools and CMake

2014-12-30 Thread Wookey
+++ Warren Young [2014-12-26 18:46 -0700]: > The thing about CMake is that its generated Makefiles contain cmake calls, so > they’re not independent of CMake, as Automake-generated Makefiles are > independent of Automake. Therefore, if you ship CMake-generated Makefiles > with your distributio

Re: Autotools and CMake

2014-12-29 Thread Kip Warner
On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 21:05 -0800, Kip Warner wrote: > Yes. In my case I don't distribute a bootstrap script, nor do I use > one myself as maintainer. I ask Sorry, I don't know what happened to the rest of this sentence: ...my users to run autoreconf -v -i -- Kip Warner -- Senior Softw

Re: Autotools and CMake

2014-12-29 Thread Kip Warner
On Fri, 2014-12-26 at 18:46 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 26, 2014, at 7:56 AM, Kip Warner wrote: > > I think the logical place to "configure" > > another subproject is within the superproject's configure script. Hey Warren. Thank you so much for getting back to me. > Yes, that’s better, f

Re: Autotools and CMake

2014-12-26 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 26, 2014, at 7:56 AM, Kip Warner wrote: > On Wed, 2014-12-24 at 15:49 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > >> I’d put the “mkdir build ; cd build ; cmake ..” type of stuff in your >> bootstrap script: > > I think the logical place to "configure" > another subproject is within the superproject's

Re: Autotools and CMake

2014-12-26 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2014-12-24 at 15:49 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > On Dec 23, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Kip Warner wrote: > Stefano Lattarini is no longer the Automake maintainer: > > http://goo.gl/eE1v9R Thanks for bringing that to my attention, Warren. > I’d put the “mkdir build ; cd build ; cmake ..” type o

Re: Autotools and CMake

2014-12-24 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 23, 2014, at 8:37 PM, Kip Warner wrote: > Hey Stefano, Stefano Lattarini is no longer the Automake maintainer: http://goo.gl/eE1v9R > What is the most elegant way of solving this problem that you would > suggest? I’d put the “mkdir build ; cd build ; cmake ..” type of stuff in your b

Autotools and CMake

2014-12-23 Thread Kip Warner
Hey Stefano, I have a working autotooled project foo that has a new dependency X. X will be distributed as part of the source distribution in subdirectory X/. X uses its own build system, CMake. To generate X's top level X/build-dir/Makefile, one runs cmake in the desired build directory with th