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Great idea. But awful theme. And no longer really relevant. CMake is now all the rage. Like krapht said, just learn CMake and be done with it.
by k_sze 12y ago
Great idea. But awful theme. And no longer really relevant.
CMake is now all the rage. Like krapht said, just learn CMake and be done with it.
- ploxiln 12y agoCMake generates Makefiles (and other build system files on other systems). If something doesn't work, you can either fiddle with it without understanding what you're doing, or you can look at the Makefile and see what went wrong... I prefer to just use plain Makefiles, they're easier to fix and "make correct" than anything else. For me, I guess. make is weird, but more minimal than cmake. (cmake is HUGE. autotools are a lot weirder than make. considering the alternatives, I actually like make...)
- ffkklf 12y agough. CMake is atrocious. It covers maybe .1% of the cases that autotools handles while having some of the worst documentation known to man. Not to mention yet another language to learn. It's not more "modern" than autotools and it's in no way shape or form "newer" than autotools, seeing that automake/autoconf have been in active development since inception.
- krakensden 12y agoIt does let you avoid shell, which makes cross platform stuff less fraught. This should not be interpreted as an endorsement of CMakes miserable, quarter-assed BASIC-in-almost-s-exprs language.
- bch 12y agoUpvoted, and re: documentation, I will say that I enjoyed the print book[0] when I was reading it years ago. Your comment re: quarter-assed BASIC... is about what I was thinking when I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9283016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9283016 -- a big missed opportunity. [0] http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-CMake-Ken-Martin/dp/1930934262 http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-CMake-Ken-Martin/dp/19309342...