Re: [Evolution-hackers] Switching from Autotools to CMake for core evolution products

[Gilles Dartiguelongue <gilles dartiguelongue esiee org>]

Le mercredi 05 octobre 2016 à 10:23 -0400, Paul Smith a écrit :
> On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 15:13 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> >
[...]
> I will point out that (a) I've had a lot of problems using CMake in a
> cross-compilation environment, where autotools works flawlessly and
> painlessly (at least as much as is possible when cross-compiling) and
> also (b) autoconf's support for command line options that select
> different features, etc. is IMO much simpler to work with and use
> than
> CMake's.

Also, does CMake support make distcheck yet ? As a downstream
maintainer, I find many packages with errors in distributed sources
would have been caught by make distcheck when releasing.

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Gilles Dartiguelongue <gilles dartiguelongue esiee org>