CMake vs autoconf

[Kevin Cozens]

On 12-01-11 09:37 PM, Syed Faisal Akber wrote:
> Quoting Kevin Cozens <kevin-4dS5u2o1hCn3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org>:
>> The one thing CMake has going for is being able to have all files related
>> to compilation go to a directory separate from the actual source tree.
>
> You can do that with the regular make as well. You just run configure from
> the source tree in an empty directory elsewhere. This works well when
> compiling gcc/binutils/etc... for many different architectures at the same
> time.

That's worth knowing but I have never seen any examples of it. On the other 
hand, CMake seemed to actively discourage compilation in the source tree.

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