Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1133

[Yaroslav Tsarko]

Besides weird and clumsy syntax CMake has one great advantage over herds 
of others so-called "build systems" (waf, scons, gyp ... <put your name 
here>) - cross compilation, and being a packager, you should be aware of 
that. CMake has indeed decent support of it. And this point gives CMake 
100 points ahead of others "build systems".

On 03.07.2014 11:40, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> As a packager I can tell you that CMake goes the next in line after 
> SCons, certainly much higher than autoconf, which makes it rather bad 
> choice for portable software. In this respect (as in many others) I 
> don't see how it is any improvement over Make. It is an improvement 
> only in one sense: it has only one dialect. Once you realize it, you 
> understand that you could have insisted on using one particular Make 
> dialect which is exactly what Chicken does. Besides, generating 
> CMakeLists automatically makes it really suspicious.
> > I'm currently experimenting with automatic dependency extraction.
> > Unfortunately, apart from make with gcc -M combination, toolchains do
> > not expect dependencies jumping into the build graph when the process
> > already started. Also this breaks parallel compilation. I have some
> > ideas but not yet figured out how to handle this cleanly.