[Fedora-packaging] cmake best practices

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Sep 1 14:11:37 UTC 2006


Orion Poplawski wrote:
> It appears that more and more projects are moving to cmake, especially 
> with KDE4 making the jump.  Two packages of mine (plplot and kdesvn) are 
> also making the switch.  I also happen to be the current packager for 
> cmake itself (because I package paraview which uses it), though I expect 
> it will have to get moved to core relatively soon.
> 
> It seems like it is time to start collecting cmake best practices for 
> generating Fedora RPMS using cmake, and perhaps even creating a %cmake 
> rpm macro that is analagous to the %configure macro.

Excellent!

...
> Now, where to put this in the wiki?

I'd suggest
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/cmake
for starters.

-- Rex




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