Re: [boost] Release Tools Analysis Part I: Build systems

From: Maik Beckmann (maikbeckmann_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-08 12:35:37

Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2007 16:23:58 schrieb David Abrahams:
> Bill just sent me this clarification privately: they can handle
> parallel *builds* (with some caveats I didn't really understand that
> made it sound somewhat unreliable)

AFAIK the caveat is that cmake doesn't build anythink itself, it just 
generates a bunch of files for the target buildsystem. 
Thus building parallel on unix flavors (including mac and msys on windows)is 
no problem, but i.e. nmake on windows can't(AFAIK).

Regards, 
Maik