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Re:Ray Tracing in pure CMake by asddubs on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:15AM (#25700956)
I'll agree CMake is pretty rough to get into, but what makes you say it doesn't do it's one job?
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Re:Ray Tracing in pure CMake by knorker on Saturday January 09, 2021 @04:10PM (#25704776)
It doesn't produce portable projects. If all you wanted was Linux (or often "Ubuntu compatible") then why not just have a raw Makefile?

It doesn't log what it attempted, or why it failed.

It can't find out how to link binaries (always awesome to set up som execsnoop (because no logs, remember) only to see that it tries to link with "-llibfoo". In what world could that be correct?. And again it doesn't log how and why it chose that)

I could go on, but it's too much for a comment field.

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