[CMake-Promote] understanding the CMake build

[Brandon J. Van Every]

William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 05:07 PM 9/9/2006, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Sure, but maybe he was building from darcs in which case it needs chicken.  
>   

Actually he probably was building from Darcs and probably did need 
Chicken.  But he didn't say this was his problem.  He hasn't said what 
his Chicken problems actually were; I've asked him to post his errors.

> Anyway, I don't think the problem here was a lack of CMake documentation.
>   

Not for building Chicken on MinGW / MSYS, at any rate.  On MacOS X, 
maybe.  Depends on if there are any weird requirements I'm unaware of, 
that he tried to look up and then supply.  Watcom, maybe; haven't tried 
it myself.  I said I'd support it if he actually needs it + does regular 
testing.  Otherwise, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to take the 
trouble, if nobody's actually using it.

> He did not want to write a cmake list file he just wanted to run cmake.
> That should be documented by the project.
>   


It is, and has been for quite some time, in INSTALL-CMake.txt.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every


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