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automake vs. GNU make

automake vs. GNU make

Posted Feb 8, 2008 5:50 UTC (Fri) by lovelace (subscriber, #278)
In reply to: automake vs. GNU make by stevenj
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions

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.


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