Re: Heads up: CMake build system for libobjc

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 13 Dec 2012, at 13:40, David Chisnall wrote:

> 
> The current CMake-based build system in libobjc2 trunk should support a 
> superset of the functionality of the existing build systems and is the one 
> that I intend to maintain going forward.  If you have an existing GNUstep 
> install, then it gives you the option of installing in either your Local or 
> System directory, otherwise it defaults to your operating system's standard 
> install location.
> 
> This addresses the bootstrapping problem, as it allows all of the 
> configurable options with no GNUstep dependencies.  These were previously 
> only available when building with GNUstep Make.  It is now possible to just 
> configure and install the runtime once, with the options that you want, then 
> install -make.
> 
> I will be removing the other build systems soon, so please test this,

It has the rather obvious problem that it doesn't run because there's no cmake 
on any of the systems I use.
I guess that would be an issue for the vast majority of our users.
Please rethink this.