Re:Non-Recursive Make Considered Harmful [pdf]
by gnufx on Sunday April 10, 2016 @02:04PM
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From considerable experience of building unixy packages, I wouldn't use "cmake" and "pretty good" together :-(.
Fedora EPEL6 has had to include two new cmake versions so far to be able to build more packages.
cmake is "pretty good" about exposing policy flags to control compatibility.