Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Implement CMake build

> Hi Jeff,
>
> I have been looking at the build generator, which looks promising, but
> I have one concern. Assuming I can generate a CMakeLists.txt that
> appropriately updates the library sources, etc. how do you suggest I
> handle new portability macros? For example, assume someone adds a
> macro HAVE_X to indicate the availability of some platform-specific
> function x. In the current Makefile, a comment would be added to the
> top indicating when HAVE_X or NO_X should be set, and that option
> would toggle the HAVE_X C macro. But CMake can test for the
> availability of x, which is one of the main motives for adding a CMake
> build. The current build generator uses the output of make, so all it
> would know is whether or not HAVE_X is defined on the platform that
> ran the Makefile, but not the entire list of platform that git
> supports.
>
> Bottom line: should I add the portability tests as they are now,
> without accounting for future portability macros? One good alternative
> might be to suggest the authors of new portability macros include a
> small sample C program to test it. That would allow me to easily patch
> the CMake tests whenever that came up. In a best case scenario, a
> practice could be established to write the test in a specific
> directory with a certain name so that I could automatically update the
> CMake tests from the build generator.