[CMake-Promote] cmake mention in blog

[William A. Hoffman]

At 02:19 AM 6/29/2006, you wrote:

>One could simply reach him via email.
>Point one is not true, people can be forced to do out-of-source.
>And now there is a large-scale-real-world project which uses cmake.
>The point about ccmake is not wrong, a nice Qt-based app/widget would be nice.
>What about cross-compiling ?

I sent the following:

>Hi,
>
>I saw your blog: http://www.jnrowe.ukfsn.org/blog/devel/build_systems.html.
>I am a cmake developer and would like to answer any questions you have about CMake.
>
>I can start with your 4 cons:
>
>1. You can force an out of source build in the CMakeList file of the project.
>(Also all files are now in a CMakeFiles directory except for the top level makefile.)
>What version of cmake are you using?  2.4.2 is the latest.
>
>2. For cross compiling we are weak, but have a customer at Kitware that is interested in
>it.   For now the basic idea, is that you have to pre-set a bunch of cmake variables
>in a file loaded with -C.
>
>Something like this:
>
>export CC=crosscc
>export CXX=crosscxx
>cmake -C BuildForXXX.cmake ../path/to/source
>
>In BuildForXXX.cmake, you need to have all the try-run variables preset
>for the target platform.
>
>3.  We are working on better error reporting.
>
>4. What build system are you using now that can find all of this stuff?
>Maybe we can copy some of that code and convert it to CMake.
>
>5. A very large project KDE, has recently switched to CMake.
>http://lwn.net/Articles/187923/
>We expect CMake to be found on most systems by default at this point.
>
>
>Where is the discussion going on about CMake, what mailing list?
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Bill