CMake 2.6

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 4, 2008, at 8:50 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:

> Jean-Charles VERDIE (Pleyo) wrote:
>
>> I'm using CMake 2.6 on OSX from MacPorts.
>> When using the env. variable CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, it is hard  
>> coded to
>> "/usr/local" on UNIX systems and we fall in this category.
>> It does not make sense in my opinion since MacPort roots to /opt/ 
>> local.
>> What's the opinion on this?
>
> If using cmake outside of MacPorts you could accidentally write  
> files to
> /opt/local which are out of control of MacPorts. I think /usr/local  
> is a
> more reasonable default. Ports using cmake can still overwrite it  
> in the
> Portfile.

Agreed.

> To do this automatically we could think about a cmake portgroup

I think a cmake portgroup would be great.

> (maybe wait for #14553)

Interesting proposal! I like it.

> or support it in base as a new build.type

Would that have any advantages over doing it as a portgroup, do you  
think? I mean, even the almighty Xcode has its support implemented as  
a portgroup.

> as the number of ports using cmake seems to grow.