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Hmm...Hmm...Posted Nov 10, 2011 16:17 UTC (Thu) by cladisch (✭ supporter ✭, #50193)In reply to: Hmm... by nix Parent article: libabc: a demonstration library for kernel developers
> it is pointlessly hard to get the equivalent of 'configure --help'
And why isn't there a wrapper script named 'configure' that offers an autotools-compatible interface? This should be possible for all build systems that can generate makefiles.
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Hmm... Posted Nov 11, 2011 16:50 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Quite. The command-line interface of CMake is pretty horrible all round: the -DCAPITAL_LETTERS=FOO interface is very silly. That D is pure excise. Why the cmake authors thought that modelling the command line on a C preprocessor rather than on getopt_long() -- a far more common program invocation syntax -- is quite beyond me.
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