[CMake] Bootstrapping CMake

[Bill Hoffman]

On 6/5/2013 2:19 PM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> 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.

CMake should only depend on a c++ compiler.  The only exception is that 
you need a previous CMake binary to bootstrap on Windows.

-Bill

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