On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 19:36 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On 26/11/2015 17:53, Svante Signell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 17:04 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > > On 26/11/2015 15:00, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 15:33 +0100, aitor_czr wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > Hi, what's wrong with plain GNU make, and the GNU auto-tools?
> > > 
> > Then you are a happy user of cmake. I'm working on porting packages for
> > GNU/Hurd and every time when I encounter packages using cmake the confusion
> > increases. It seems almost impossible to find out where to make changes and,
> > the build process is not traceable. (maybe It's just me :( )
>
> You looked at CMakeFiles/CMake(Output|Error) ?  Most stuff should be
> logged there.  And if you need to trace, message(WARNING) will print a
> trace along with the diagnostic.

Well, as long as you work with configure.ac, Makefile.am and confiugre.h.in
level for files you won't have any problems with make/autotools. The rest is
mostly hidden (and by now stable) from a user perspective.