[CMake-Promote] understanding the CMake build

[Brandon J. Van Every]

William A. Hoffman wrote:
> As for the chicken errors, that is your
> department.  It really should be cmake ../source; make.  

Indeed, I expressed shock at the purported MinGW / MSYS failures.  
Granted I use Windows 2000, but this is my canonical development 
platform.  I hope he is conflating VTK and Chicken problems.

> Although with
> chicken there is the problem of having to have chicken installed before
> you can build chicken.....

Not anymore!  A Chicken tarball distribution is now fully bootable 
without Chicken, under both CMake and Autoconf.  We have a development 
snapshot on the Chicken homepage, which only works on some platforms.  
We've fixed most of the problems with that snapshot; it's about time for 
another one.  We have a CMake script that builds a distribution by 
typing "make dist" .  It actually runs the Autotools and includes 
everything needed for that as well; it's a unified distribution.  It's 
now the canonical method for building a Chicken distro.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every