[CMake] Autoconf2CMake

[Craig Bradney]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 11:38, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Jordi Inglada wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is there anything like an autoconf2CMake utility? We are trying to
> > include an autoconf-based project in the source tree of our CMake-based
> > library and we are having some trouble.
>
> I doubt it.  Certainly there is no canonical well supported tool
> anywhere.  Someone may have homebrewed something for their own
> purposes.  Generally, CMake isn't trying to be autoconf, nor saddle
> itself with autoconf issues.  Many of us who learn CMake do so because
> we can't stand autoconf.
>
> > The library we want to encapsulate has a complex directory tree and the
> > manual conversion is not an easy task. We would like to have an
> > automatic procedure, since we plan to update the sources when new
> > versions of the library are available.
>
> Well, realizing that autoconf is a mess and should be jettisoned might
> help you more than trying to keep your feet in both worlds.

There is an am2cmake in the KDE tree somewhere, though I needed to learn CMake 
for Scribus so I just did it from scratch. You may find you can generate a 
CMake build setup fairly quickly though, perhaps in under a few days even for 
a complex system.

Craig