Douglas Gregor wrote:
On Oct 27, 2005, at 5:48 AM, Andrew Maclean wrote:
Do you feel like doing one for CMake - it would be a lot more useful in that it is cross-platform (*nix, Macs, QNX-Neutrino, Windows) and also generates the requisite IDE files eg. KDevelop3, Borland, Microsoft VC ?
Nope :)
The configure script is "autoconf-like" because it looks like autoconf, but it isn't. It's just a shell script that compiles bjam for you, converts autoconf-style options into bjam options, and produces a short Makefile that merely calls bjam with the right incantations. As David A. says, we don't want to duplicate the build system, but the demand for "./configure && make && make install" was too great to ignore.
On second thoughts, that's a really smart way to go - I'd not have thought of that - I like it. Cheers, -- Manfred MetOcean Engineers