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On Wednesday 26 of March 2014 02:07:56 Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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| cmake is completely broken when it comes to library searching and multilib and |
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| cross-compiling. it will happily look in hardcoded / paths to test for the |
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| existence of files as well as directly execute `pkg-config`. it's a great |
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| example of people saying "autotools is crap, so let's invent our own kind of |
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| crap and ignore lessons learned". this isn't the fault of cmake eclasses, but |
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| it'd be nice if we could someone standardize the hacks in there so we don't |
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| have to duplicate across ebuilds. |
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If we provided toolchain.cmake (passed to CMake via -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<path>) file for each crossdev, that could not only set compiler paths/etc but also override CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH, we would get pretty close to autotools. |
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Yes, CMake has pretty rudimentary (to put it mildly..) cross-compilation support but it still can be done there somewhat "right". |
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regards |
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MM |
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