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Re:Ray Tracing in pure CMake by knorker on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:41AM (#25712884)
Again, project after project that doesn't work under those settings.

I'm not saying CMake itself doesn't work. Though I have run into both "CMake version is too old!" and "CMake version is too new!", which by its nature can't happen with autotools.

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Re:Ray Tracing in pure CMake by rleigh on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:02AM (#25713853)
It can happen with the autotools.

The reason it hasn't been seen recently is that there has been no significant development of note for the past 15 years.

Even so, it's still common for the distributed config.sub and config.guess to be outdated. That's the price you pay for embedding stuff in each package, as opposed to requiring the build tool to be provided on the build system just like all the other tools.

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Re:Ray Tracing in pure CMake by knorker on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:36AM (#25727099)
> It can happen with the autotools.

Yes. Again squared: project after project etcetera.

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