Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Make CMake reuse Makefile.common?

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/03/15 11:50, Alexis La Goutte wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Recently there have been two issues due to separate copies between CMake
>     and autofoo (missing ATH dissector, missing field registrations for
>     plugins).
>
>     The former could occur due to missing duplication from Makefile.common
>     into CMakeLists.txt. The latter happens because the
>     plugins/*/CMakeLists.txt are slightly different than the Makefiles (in
>     terms of variable sets).
>
>     Hereby I am proposing to convert Makefile.common automatically to
>     CMakeLists.inc.txt, and then include that during the build process to
>     set variables. The inspiration comes from cURL which too supports
>     autoconf, and (as an experimental option) cmake.
>
>     See this transformation macro[0] and its use[1] for an example.
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Need to try... but i known CMake cURL is no perfect... and there is some
> plan to drop support of CMake ;-)
>
>
> And also if i remember the target is only have CMake for build system
> (and remove autofoo...)

I've never been sure that's a good idea but regardless I think it will 
be so long before cmake can do everything autotools can that anything to 
make our lives easier in the mean time would be a good idea.