[CMake] Copying cmake generated files to another machine

[Óscar Fuentes]

Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org>
writes:

>> My advice is to start small: with a text editor, edit the top-level
>> project file, then edit the project file of lib/System, which does not
>> depend on any other file. Move the whole tree to somewhere else, open VS
>> and build just the System library. If it works, that's good. Proceed to
>> write a script for automating the absolute->relative path conversion.
>
> You are wasting your time.
>
> It's not going to be that easy. You will need to replace all the calls
> to CMake with generated stuff. Even in the improbable case you
> succeed, you would be giving people something which somewhat works,
> you would not be shipping the actual buildsystem but some kind of a
> pseudo-pre-geneated buildsystem.

You are right.

> Morale: anal retentive people must learn that opening your ass to
> something new may make you happier.

It is not so easy. Anal retentive people have the right personality
traits for doing QA and certification work.

-- 
Óscar