[MINC-development] compiling Display from github

[Vladimir S. FONOV]

Exactly
On Nov 5, 2012 11:01 AM, "Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso" <jordigh at octave.org>
wrote:

> On 5 November 2012 10:39, Vladimir S. FONOV <vladimir.fonov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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."
>
> > Are you ready to take over as official minc maintainer?
>
> No, I didn't mean to say that CMake is a bad choice. Building is a
> chore. All choices are equally annoying. For MINC, CMake may have a
> 'suck' vector in a better direction than autotools. I'm used to both
> and I dislike both for different reasons, but I've disliked every
> build system I've ever seen (ant, Scons, bjam...)
>
> > If you are not, then in this particular situation your 'suck' vector is
> > purely imaginary.
>
> So it points straight up in the complex plane? :-)
>
> - Jordi G. H.
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