automake vs. GNU make [LWN.net]

automake vs. GNU make

Posted Feb 7, 2008 17:11 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (subscriber, #421)
In reply to: automake vs. GNU make by aleXXX
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions

UNIX Makefiles (not quite sure if it requires GNU make, I don't think so)

You are sorely mistaken if you think that there is one way to build shared libraries that works on all flavors of Unix. If you only care about Windows, GNU/Linux and similar systems with gcc, and MacOS X, then yes, generating three makefiles will work, but that's not solving anything like the whole problem.

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automake vs. GNU make

Posted Feb 7, 2008 23:17 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]

CMake knows how to build shared libs on all supported platforms (which 
support shared libs) with all supported toolchains (GNU, IBM, Sun, 
Borland, MS, Portland, Intel, HP and more). For several 
platforms/toolchains this is tested every night (unfortunately there 
aren't nightly tests for all supported combinations).
http://www.cmake.org/Testing/Dashboard/20080206-0100-Nigh...

Alex

automake vs. GNU make

Posted Feb 8, 2008 5:50 UTC (Fri) by lovelace (subscriber, #278) [Link]

The makefiles CMake generates are not portable and can only be used on the system that they're generated on. If you move to a different system, you use CMake to generate makefiles for that system. That's how they can reliably create shared libraries on multiple systems using makefiles.