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[Sebastian Hegler <>]

Dear Sebastien,

Am 10.01.2011 um 14:47 schrieb Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory):
> Sebastian Hegler wrote:
>> As I work with the autotools for my projects, I wrote an autotools script, 
>> AX_LIB_CGAL_CORE, to use CGAL with these tools. The script is included in 
>> the "GNU autoconf archive" project's git repository; see 
>> "http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/"; for further info. Current 
>> feature set:
>> * detects the CGAL core libraries (libCGAL.so and libCGAL_Core.so)
>> * works with CGAL 3.6 and newer
>> Current shortcomings:
>> * does not detect the CGAL libraries that depend on Qt
>> * it is up to the user to keep track about the compiler flags used for 
>> CGAL and all dependent projects
>> * maybe a lot more


> As you know, the CGAL project made the choice to move to cmake as building 
> tool.
> We currently do not have enough manpower to maintain two different build 
> systems, and I think this probably would not be a good idea to maintain 
> both.
Just in case we misunderstood: this script is no build system (replacement) 
for CGAL itself, you still need to build CGAL somehow. It is a script for the 
autotools toolchain to facilitate the inclusion of CGAL into other software 
projects, where the other projects use the autotools as their build system.



Sincerely,
Sebastian