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

[Sandro Santilli]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 04:16:28PM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:

> Install/uninstall steps:
> 
>   build-cmake$ time sudo make install
>   real    0m1.514s
>   user    0m0.403s
>   sys     0m0.232s
> 
>   build-autotools$ time sudo make install
>   real    0m10.302s
>   user    0m9.643s
>   sys     0m0.737s
> 
> Note that the extra time on "make install" for autotools
> is due to some problematic dependency encoded to deal with
> GEOS revision flag, used to build final library (not sure
> a ticket exists for that already)

After fixing the bug in tools/repo_revision.sh these are
the new timings (cmake twice as fast at install):

    build-autotools$ time sudo make install
    real    0m2.905s
    user    0m2.379s
    sys     0m0.595s

--strk;