From: Gianni <nasus.maximos@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: WIP: About CMake v2
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 22:46:14 -0300
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On Friday 28 August 2015 13:28:49 Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2015-08-28 12:32:45 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > YUriy Zhuravlev wrote:
> > > > Hello Hackers
> > > >
> > > > How would you react if I provided a patch which introduces a CMake
> > > > build
> > > > system?
> > >
> > > What's your motivation for doing so?
> >
> > I definitely can see some advantages. Non-broken dependencies around
> > recursive make being a major one. But I'm also afraid it's a rather
> > large undertaking. There's a fair number of special kind of rules, and
> > we're probably not going to want to break pgxs for extensions.
> >
> > I also have some doubts around the portability of cmake and it's
> > generated makefiles. We do support some odd platforms.
>
> If it allows us to get rid of our custom MSVC scripts, it's a huge
> benefit, for sure -- that has been a huge pain in the neck since day
> one.
As a user, I suffer a bit with the current build system when I try to build
libpq in MinGW. So, if moving to CMake means the build is more 'decoupled',
i.e. less inter-dependent modules, it would be great.
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