2021.01.03 16:24 "Re: [Tiff] Autotools", by Bob Friesenhahn

huh, where do you get that from? I was using cmake long before our toolchain had a C++11 compiler. And as far as I know, you can use it to build a C only project too.

Certainly you can build a C only project. But cmake is written in C++ and thus only can be run on systems that have C++ compilers available.

It is likely that nost cmake users have not built cmake from source code. I have needed to do that before. It is a large program.

A suitable C++ compiler is not easily available on all possible host systems.

Bob

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