Re: Freecell Solver's Test Suite + Conversion to CMake

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008, Shlomi Fish wrote about "[hackers-il] Freecell Solver's Test Suite + Conversion to CMake":
> I recently resumed work on Freecell Solver (FCS) somewhat more intensively. 
> Having gotten tired of Autoconf/Automake/Libtool (a.k.a Autohell), I decided 
> to convert to CMake ( http://www.cmake.org/ ) for its configuration stage. 

Hi Shlomi, can you please tell us a bit about this "CMake", of which I have
to admit I never heard? What makes it better than autoconf (forget automake,
I consider it cosmetics) - at least for you? Does it have any downsides
compared to autoconf?

For reference, here is what I use autoconf for. In the (good?) old days,
not all machines I had access to were PCs with Intel CPUs running Linux.
I found myself compiling the same program I wrote on Linux, Solaris,
DEC Alpha, AIX, Silicon Graphics, and AT&T System 5, all in the same week.
And each of those systems had its own compiler peculiarity, different
installed software, library differences, and most notorious - compiler bugs
(demonstrating, by the way, the point that free software *does* have fewer
bugs). This is where autoconf came in extremely handy. Does CMake also
aim to help you in this scenario - of people who don't use Windows or Linux?

Nadav.

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