Re: [fluid-dev] Re: cmake variables cannot be turned on/off

[David Henningsson]

On 2010-11-09 22:15, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> > > > Maybe this is because you are using a fink package, and they only
> > > > provide a crippled CMake where cmake-gui has been amputated.
> >
> > Such snide comments are destructive for harmoniously working together.
>
> What is the truth? CMake source packages include cmake-gui. It is their 
> official GUI program. Fink provides an automated build for CMake packages that 
> excludes cmake-gui from bering built and installed. Fink users have no way to 
> know that this program exists at all. Maybe my words are harsh, but Fink is 
> being hostile against CMake.

May I kindly ask you to bring the issue of CMake's packaging issues in 
Fink, to the fink list instead of the fluidsynth list? It seems more 
likely to reach the right people.

> And talking about harmony and friendship, let's see this quote from a recent 
> thread in fink-devel: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.devel/19876
>
> > On Oct 12, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote:
> > > I tried updating audacious2-plugins to use fluidsynth1 but fluidsynth1 doesn't 
> > > build for me on 10.6/x86_64  because freaking cmake is a moron and puts the 
> > > library into lib64 instead of lib. Have I mentioned that I hate cmake?
> [...]
> > Many thanks,
> > Ebrahim
> > P.S. Yeah, cmake is a witch!
>
> Vive la fraternité!

IMHO, CMake has done some things better than autotools [1], and for me 
as FluidSynth developer, the switch of build system has been a step in 
the right direction.
I do recognise that this has meant additional work for 
distributions/packagers, who already had a working infrastructure and 
had to change to adapt. So I'd like to take the opportunity to thank all 
people - which obviously includes both of you - who have struggled, 
sometimes in frustration, to make the new build system work in various 
environments. Thank you! Your efforts are highly appreciated.

// David

[1] This includes e g out-of-source builds, src/fluidsynth is the binary 
instead of a strange script (which makes runs under gdb easier), and 
percentage meter when building.