Re^2: OT Sick of make, is there a replacement?

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cmake is both much more and somewhat less than a make replacement

My only experience with cmake is as a *precursor* to make. Whenever I run cmake (eg to build freeglut or plplot libraries), it generates one or more makefiles and the very next command I run is 'make'.
I therefore see cmake as an alternative to autotools, not as an alternative to make.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^3: OT Sick of make, is there a replacement? by fullermd (Priest) on Aug 07, 2015 at 00:23 UTC
Sorta. cmake generates makefiles (or other build systems, like ninja), that run (among other things) cmake. So it's not like autotools in that it just spits outs plain makefiles; you need cmake through the whole process, even if you invoke it via make.	[reply]

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