Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: Bill Hoffman (bill.hoffman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-10 11:43:47

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> On cursory look on this discussion I've got an impression that CMake is
> native makefile generation system. IOW I will need to
> 1. run some kind of script to generate makefile
> 2. run native make command
>
> This is unacceptable for me on both counts.
>
> If we decide to build wrapper around CMake, who is going to develop and 
> maintain it?
>
>   
I think Cmake can maintain this.  The functionality is already in CMake 
to run the various build
tools supported via try_compile, and ctest.  All that remains is to add 
a command line option
to cmake.

cmake --build-project

So, it will become part of CMake, and we will maintain it. 

-Bill