On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Luca Barbato <<a href="mailto:lu_zero@gentoo.org">lu_zero@gentoo.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Jason G wrote:<br>
> Hopefully this will explain the benefits I've found in using cmake.<br>
<br>
</div>Please take your time to check which are the current limitations of<br>
cmake and autotools, I'm afraid you hadn't used autotools enough time or<br>
you got the ugly and wrong documentation to learn (that's the first big<br>
shortcoming about automake, stale documentation or ugly documentation<br>
appear when you look for it).</blockquote><div><br>For what its worth - I've found the following really helped me [begin to] understand autotools when I started using it for a personal project (and its only 2 years out of date ;) :<br>
<br><a href="http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/">http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/</a> <br></div></div><br><br>yours,<br>Bobby<br>