[geos-devel] RFC7 - Use CMake as build system for GEOS

[Greg Troxel]

Daniel Baston <dbaston at gmail.com> writes:

>> I'm asking if we can have a "make check" rule, generated by CMake,
>> that will run the same tests run by current "make check" rule
>> generated by autotools and with the same important condition of
>> built binaries and libraries _NOT_ moving out of the build tree.
>>
>> Also I'd like to have a "make dist" and "make distcheck" and
>> of course the other custom ones ("apidoc"/"doxygen"/"pdf",
>> "gen-ChangeLog" etc.)
>
> Can you clarify how this request relates to your proposal to drop CMake
> entirely? If this question can be answered to your satisfaction, do you still
> wish to drop CMake? (I'm hesitant to spent time investigating if you're not
> interested in the answer.)

I'm pretty sure he means:

  if there is serious talk of removing autotools, then the cmake build
  has to support make check/dist/distcheck, so that moving to cmake
  isn't a regression