[CMake] Bootstrapping CMake
Dan Kegel
dank at kegel.com
Wed Jun 5 14:19:02 EDT 2013
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Frerich Raabe <raabe at froglogic.com> wrote:
> one of the projects I'm working on requires that the build system can be bootstrapped, i.e. when unpacking a source tarball you run 'configure' which is actually a shell script which first runs 'make' to build the actual (proprietary) build tool - which has no dependencies other than a C++ compiler and a C++ library - and then it runs the build tool.
Doesn't cmake fit this description? I see a 'configure' script in the
cmake source tree, and I think after running it, you then run 'make'
to build cmake.
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