Re:Allowing CMake functions to return(value)
by rumanator on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:55AM
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> Autotools generate a Makefile project
That's what all build systems do. Hell, cmake's description is "cross-platform Makefile generator".
The rationale is quite obvious: the DAG part is solved problem. The hard part is extracting platform-dependent info, perform validations, and use it to generate the DAG.
That's what all build systems do. Hell, cmake's description is "cross-platform Makefile generator".
The rationale is quite obvious: the DAG part is solved problem. The hard part is extracting platform-dependent info, perform validations, and use it to generate the DAG.
And a Makefile is a DAG.