[CMake] --enable-* with cmake

[Olivier Delannoy]

Instead of adding a new series of option to the cmake tool, why not
adding a convenient script generated based on the content of
CMakeLists files that is called configure and follow the autoconf way
of things. This can be a macro which is used when CPack is used or
something like that.


On 8/9/07, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Philip Lowman <philip at yhbt.com> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know where -DUSE_FOO or -D USE_FOO came from, it doesn't appear
> > to be legal in 2.4.6.
>
> Oops.  Guess I haven't done enough of these to remember how I did them.
>
> > The fact that people don't even know the proper way to define variables
> > at the command line (myself included) should be proof positive that
> > CMake could use some improvement when operating in command line mode.
>
> I don't think that follows.  The format for -D is actually well
> documented in cmake.html.  Just because people don't do this a lot
> with CMake, and don't know things off the top of their heads, doesn't
> mean the method is wrong, broken, or needing improvement.
>
> I think this is purely a marketing issue.
>
> Anyways, people can feel free to put a feature request in the bug
> tracker.  I don't see any tremendous harm in allowing --enable-* style
> commands.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
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