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Re: Packaging with CMake



On 2008-10-06, Robin Cornelius <robin.cornelius@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Sune Vuorela <nospam@vuorela.dk> wrote:
> roduces working debs and keeps the orig.tar.gz clean too.
>>>
>>> This does seem a little dirty which makes me think i'm not quite doing
>>> it right though so if anyone has a better way to do this?, but it does
>>> work.
>>
>> It is neither dirty or a pain, but much easier to work with. Building
>> out of source as much as possible is making cleaning up easier. And
>> cmake is designed this way.
>>
>
> It didn't seem right probably because of being used to the way
> autotools work and this is different. What seemed dirty was having to

You can usually do out of tree builds with autotools as well.

> "mkdir build" and "rm -d" etc within debian/rules. I can see
> advantages having the build area completely separate from the source
> as it ensures that source will not be touched during build and makes
> cleaning a trivial directory delete. Any examples of an invocation of
> cmake from debian/rules for build and clean? as i would be quite
> interested to see if I am doing it correctly or not.

Currently, I recommend automoc.

/Sune


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