Re: WIP: About CMake v2

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: YUriy Zhuravlev <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WIP: About CMake v2
Date: 2015-11-26 16:42:16
Message-ID: 20151126164216.GA2521@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2015-11-26 19:22:23 +0300, YUriy Zhuravlev wrote:
> On Thursday 26 November 2015 11:10:36 you wrote:
> > Adding a new build
> > dependency is bad enough; adding one that isn't easily available is a
> > show-stopper.
>
> If someone decided to compile from source Postgres rather than install from
> RPM then it will not be a problem as to build CMake.

Packages have to be built from something, and usually it's desirable
that all dependencies are from within the distribution.

I don't think you'll have much success pushing back on this.

> It is possible to make support for CMake 2.6 but now is not the time when you
> have to think about it. I'll come back to this when all the functionality will
> work.

No point in doing any work if you don't agree with the basic prerequisites.

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