Re: [Cppcms-users] cppcms build problems

[Markus R. <us...@ma...>]

Artyom wrote:

> Hello...
> 
>> 
>> Searching for libs is very easy - if there is already
>> support for it. It is
>> also often done without pkg-config. Something like
>> find_package(Boost 1.34 REQUIRED COMPONENTS thread
>> date_time program_options
>> regex filesystem)
>> may be enough.
> 
> Good you mentioned it ;-) Just to make my points better.

> Ok lets try to search a library by myself and check if I can
> find all I need... Find 5 libraries... but second
> if(X and Y and Z and T) does not work in CMake syntax...
> So lets write long-long tests...

The tests are quite long, but hopefully they will be shared along projects
soon or accepted into cmake core.

> Ok lets check where we have socket? in libc, nls, or socket
> (AC_SEARCH_LIBS) there is no such thing (note it is quite
> different from find library)...
> 
> Write long macros again.

Yes

> Now, lets check for simple C++0x feature "auto"... Wait a second
> for TRY_COMPILE I need to create a project instead of writing
> 3 lines. WTF???

You are writing for boost, so you can simply use BOOST_NO_AUTO_DECLARATIONS
and don't need to write the checks yourself :-)

> -----------------------------
> In other words...
> 
> CMake is almost as useable as... handly written configure script.
> It is just too verbose, It is more
> verbose by an order of magnitude then auto* even for simple
> tasks you take for granted.

It is verbose, no question about that. I am asking myself how happy you will
be with Jam :-)

Markus

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