[Dune-devel] .in-file mechanism with cmake?!

[Dominic Kempf]

Hey,

I am with Christoph here. If such use case exists in your project, add those
lines on a per-module basis (in your top level CMakeLists.txt). No need
to add it in every single CMakeLists file you use them with.

Best,
Dominic



On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Christian Engwer <
christian.engwer at uni-muenster.de> wrote:

> you really hate our users, don't you?
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:27:04PM +0200, Christoph Grüninger wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> > no, I am against such a hack. All this magic makes it more complicated
> > to understand the CMake scripts.
> >
> > > this is no option, as the module is supposed to work with both
> > > autotools and cmake.
> > >
> > > Remember... we are in the transition period ;-)
> >
> > How about using a second ini input file?
> >
> > I don't see why we (you) should make complicated workarounds when we can
> > keep the problem local. Right after the next release you would be able
> > to get rid of the old file together with Autotools.
>
> this would not be complicated at all. Complicated is the stuff that
> translates opts files to cmake defines.
>
> A simpler solution, but without the possibility of deprecation
> warnings is a command like
>
> set_automake_path_variables()
>
> which sets the set of path variables and allows to use the
> substitution in both cases. Sure, the user can add the list of defines
> in each CMakeLists.txt, but I think this makes the files far less
> readable.
>
> Christian
>
> >
> > Just my 2 cents,
> > Christoph
> >
> > --
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