Le 2014-05-15 18:27, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) a écrit :
On May 15, 2014, at 6:14 PM, Fabricio Cannini <fcann...@gmail.com> wrote:
Alright, but now I'm curious as to why you decided against it.
Could please elaborate on it a bit ?
OMPI has a long, deep history with the GNU Autotools. It's a very long,
complicated story, but the high points are:
1. The GNU Autotools community has given us very good support over the years.
2. The GNU Autotools support all compilers that we want to support, including
shared library support (others did not, back in 2004 when we started OMPI).
3. The GNU Autotools can fully bootstrap a tarball such that the end user does
not need to have the GNU Autotools installed to build an OMPI tarball.
You mean some people do NOT have GNU Autotools ? :P
Jokes aside, CMake has certainly matured enough for point #2 and is used
by very big projects (KDE for example). Not sure about point #3 though.
I am wondering though, how do you handle Windows with OpenMPI and GNU
Autotools ? I know CMake is famous for being cross-plateform (that's
what the C means) and can generate builds for Windows, Visual Studio and
such.
In any case, I do not see any need to change from one toolchain to
another, although I have seen many projects providing both and that did
not seem to be too much of a hassle. It's still probably more work than
what you want to get into though.
Maxime
