[Dune] [#1000] Migrate build system from autotools to CMake

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FS#1000 - Migrate build system from autotools to CMake
User who did this - Sascha Zelzer (sascha)

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I completely agree with the last comments. I would also love to be able to stick to CMake for my various projects, even if I would just work on Linux. Cross-platform ability was just the primary thing I personally associated with CMake as it's strongest advantage.

The link above shows the typical CMake way when using a Make file generator. For our project we use a CMake based system dubbed "Superbuild" to build projects (modules) located in different repositories. You get the sources for a "core" project (for example for dune-common, via git/svn/tarball/whatever) and when configuring the project the user is presented with several options which allow enabling different optional "external projects" (dune-grid, dune-fem, etc.). The CMake system would then get those external projects (tarball download/git clone/svn checkout/whatever), configure them appropriately and build them in the right order. This can be set up with a very minimal amount of CMake code and in the case of using a Make file generator, the dependencies are all encoded in the generated make targets.
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