PROPOSAL: Use Cmake as the build system for Samba

[simo]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:45 +1100, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
>  > Is it really such a big problem? It would be possible to bootstrap it on the 
>  > system or install binaries.
> 
> It could be a problem, yes. We don't have a login on most of our build
> systems. We are relying on the support of the people who run the
> systems. They don't always respond to requests for system changes.

Can we ship a binary as part of the build process to the build farm
machines ?

cmake doesn't need to be installed system wide so delivering it
to /home/build/bin/cmake should be enough.

If we can do so we might for those machines that can't build or install
cmake on their own.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>