[gmx-developers] cmake docs

[Szilárd Páll]

Hi Erik,

I agree with the need for more complete documentation.

However, regarding the "configure --help" feature in CMake I have to
disagree. This again sounds like a feature which intends to emulate
autoconf in CMake. Instead, we should encourage the new ways of doing
things in CMake. For instance, one can use cmake in "wizard mode"  -i
which is basically an interactive console, or the ncurses interface,
ccmake. Both of these options show the description for each variable
therefore, one important goal should be to refine these descriptions.
The same descriptions could go on the website as well.

Cheers,
--
Szilárd



On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Erik Marklund <erikm at xray.bmc.uu.se> wrote:
> Hi developers,
>
> Since gromacs no longer builds with automake, I think it would be wonderful
> if the gromacs-specific cmake variables could be better documented. Or
> rather, documented at all. With automake one could list the options with
> ./configure --help, but with cmake I know of no such option. I have nothing
> against contributing to that, but I'm a cmake novice that actually need such
> documentation and am therefore probably not the right person for the job.
>
> Cheers,
>
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