[MINC-development] compiling Display from github

[Vladimir S. FONOV]

Are you ready to take over as official minc maintainer?

If you are not, then in this particular situation your 'suck' vector is
purely imaginary.


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh at octave.org
> wrote:

> On 5 November 2012 10:03, Jason Lerch <jason at phenogenomics.ca> wrote:
> > No, I was using the master branch. I'll give the devel branch a try
> > later - which I guess will include trying to understand the god
> > forsaken cmake build system (I know that autoconf sucks and the
> > thought of writing anything in m4 is horrid, but at least I got used
> > to it!).
>
> Cmake sucks too, since it's a lot more difficult to write custom tests
> for it that aren't already built-in. It's less flexible than
> autotools, but using it as a user should be no more difficult than
> autotools. Instead of doing
>
>     cd build-directory ## optional
>     /path/to/configure
>     make
>     make install
>
> do
>
>     cd build-directory ## optional
>     cmake /path/to/CMakeLists.txt
>     make
>     make install
>
> As we say in IRC, "The 'suck' is a unit vector. A given foo doesn't
> suck LESS, it just sucks in a direction a given hacker finds less
> disagreeable."
>
> HTH,
> - Jordi G. H.
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-- 
Best regards,

 Vladimir S. Fonov ~ vladimir <dot> fonov <at> gmail <dot> com
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