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

[Felix Winkelmann]

From: Yaroslav Tsarko <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1133
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:14:10 +0400

> 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".

Interesting. Can you point me to specifics? I find the cmake
documentation somewhat opaque, but perhaps it's just the terminology
that is alien to me. In other words, what makes cross-compilation
in CMake easier than in, say, GNU make?


felix