Subject: Re: libssh2 master 42aefdb configure.ac: Call zlib zlib and not libz in text but keep option names

Re: libssh2 master 42aefdb configure.ac: Call zlib zlib and not libz in text but keep option names

From: Alexander Lamaison <swish_at_lammy.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:16:54 +0100

On 18 September 2013 21:05, Peter Stuge <peter_at_stuge.se> wrote:
> Alexander Lamaison wrote:
>> Why not just
>
> My main reason for not liking cmake is that it requires cmake to be
> installed on every system where the code has to build. I also haven't
> had much success using cmake as a user, but that may just be because
> of ignorance. :)

I've often heard this criticism levelled at CMake but never really
understood it. Like people think the rest of the build chain didn't
require installing anything or something.

CMake is small and simple to install on any platform. In many years
of using it I can promise you CMake never has never slowed me down or
gotten in my way. Asking our users to spend 10 seconds installing
CMake in exchange for effortlessly producing a build setup for just
about any build chain they desire seems an obvious choice.

Alex

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