This shellscript provides CMake-projects with a configure-script similar to the one autoconf provides. It supports all options from the GNU Coding Guidelines and even takes generic arguments.
The basic functionality should work out of the box. Just adding the configure-script to you project enables simple functionality like the --prefix argument and --enable-debug. You will notice that CMake complains about a lot of unused variables. The function of these variables can be looked up here.
The script takes arguments of the form --enable-* and --disable-*. Passing an argument like --enable-foo-bar sets FEATURE_FOO_BAR=ON. --disable-foo-bar would set the same variable to "OFF".
The same applies to the arguments --with-* and --without-*. --with-foo-bar sets PACKAGE_FOO_BAR=ON. --without-foo-bar sets it to "OFF".
All directory arguments (except --prefix) are not supported natively by CMake. The script sets variables like INSTALL_LIBDIR for --libdir for example, but you have to explicitly use them. You will need to specify
install (TARGETS some_shared_lib LIBRARY DESTINATION ${INSTALL_LIBDIR})for libdir to have an effect.
This leads to a serious problem: The standard CMake Parameters are ignored and calls like cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr will not work anymore.
This can be solved by moving the file ConfigureWrapper to your projects CMAKE_MODULE_PATH and issuing include (ConfigureWrapper) at the start of
your projects CMakeLists.txt. If you build the project with configure nothing will change, but if you use cmake directly the variables the script sets
normally will be set to their default location (relative to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX).
This project is licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License.