Brandon Van Every wrote:
On 10/23/07, Bill Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, now this is more what I was asking for. If autotools based
projects in msys install into /usr/local by default, then maybe CMake
ones should as well.
As far as I'm concerned, this is Autotools' problem. CMake should
pursue no slavish strategy with regards to Autotools. Only strategies
that actually result in Autotools projects getting converted to CMake
projects. I've made known my political views on that! It's mostly
about working with people who are ready to move on and willing to make
changes.
I think I am going to post to the msys mailing
list and get some input from those folks. My reason for not wanting to
use /usr/local was that msys states that it does not want to become a
cygwin, but rather just a tool so that you can build autotools projects
under msys.
Last I checked a couple of years back, the MSYS developers were
surprisingly hostile to autotools. Don't wade into their mailing list
saying "MSYS is for running autotools" unless you want to seek
offense. I believe I checked into this when you and I were having
this very argument awhile ago. And I conceded, having previously been
of the /usr/local mindset, because of what I found on the MSYS list.
It will be interesting to see what you determine *at present*.
OK, I am officially moving this discussion to the msys mailing list. If
anyone is interested in this, please join the mingw-msys mailing list here:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-msys
The initial response on that list in favor of keeping CMake the way it
currently is. There is an interesting discussion on the pros/cons of
setting c:/msys/usr/local as an install prefix that happened Sept 2007
on that list.
Here is the initial response to my inquiry:
> See, for example, this detailed discussion:
> http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-What%27s-a-%22MSYS-app%22--p12899758.html
> of the problem it solves, and of issues it may create.
>
> I'd suggest that CMake not do extra work to support a default
> that's likely to be overridden, especially because the most
> common idiom for overriding it isn't universally optimal.
If anyone wants to argue for/against CMake defaulting to /usr/local then
do it on the msys mailing list.
Thanks.
-Bill
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