PROPOSAL: Use Cmake as the build system for Samba

Andreas Schneider asn at redhat.com
Thu Feb 18 04:28:55 MST 2010


On Thursday 18 February 2010 08:25:26 Kai Blin wrote:
> Is there any reason why we need CMake 2.6 instead of 2.4 (Ubuntu 8.04 ships
> 2.4.7)?

The main reason is for the scope of variables and the introduction of 
functions.

* Added functions with local scope variables
* Added return, break, and PARENT_SCOPE to set 

Nice to have is cross compilation support with cmake 2.6 especially for 
embedded systems.

Cheers,

	-- andreas


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