Re: Make CMake reuse Makefile.common?

[Peter Wu <peter () lekensteyn nl>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 02:11:02PM -0500, Evan Huus wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com> wrote:
> > On 03/04/15 11:55, Graham Bloice wrote:
> > > On 4 March 2015 at 16:44, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com
> > > <mailto:jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     On 03/04/15 04:07, Michal Labedzki wrote:
> > >
> > >             On 03/03/15 11:50, Alexis La Goutte wrote:
> > >
> > >                 And also if i remember the target is only have CMake for
> > >                 build system
> > >                 (and remove autofoo...)
> > >
> > >
> > >         I hope there will be only CMake in near future (imply remove
> > >         autotools). As I know cmake aka build systems working for all
> > >         platforms. What about remove building part of autotools, use
> > >         cmake for
> > >         that and use autotools for other tasks?
> > >
> > >
> > >     It may work but last I checked it didn't work too well: there's a
> > >     bunch of stuff that works when running from an autotools build
> > >     directory that doesn't from a cmake directory.  And it doesn't
> > >     appear many people have been working on that.
> > >
> > >
> > > Maybe that should be enumerated somewhere.  I've only built (off
> > > Windows) on Ubuntu using CMake and it worked for me.  On Windows there
> > > are a few bits left to finish off, but I think the nmake usage is coming
> > > to an end.
> >
> >
> > It generally works it's just missing features.  A bunch are documented in
> > README.cmake but not all.  For example I think Evan found that the test
> > suite--at least the Lua portion--don't work in cmake builds; I fixed that in
> > autotools (starting with https://code.wireshark.org/review/3348) but I don't
> > think anyone has touched the cmake part (I gave up even thinking about cmake
> > a while ago).
>
> Yes, the last time I checked the lua test suite on an out-of-tree
> cmake build failed because it couldn't find the right init.lua file.

This likely happened because of the build dir is not correctly used in
cmake builds. See https://code.wireshark.org/review/7453
-- 
Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl
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