CMake based builds RFC

[rockdreamer]

Hi *,

I'm currently using ctemplate at work for automating a pretty wide
range of generations and my colleagues are telling me they're very
happy with it :)

I'm a bit less happy with it as I need to automate the build on a
variety of platforms, including (shudder!) AIX and Hp-ux. I've managed
to build on all of these platforms but I had to make a couple of dirty
hacks here and there and the whole thing is brittle as I need to
support some rather broken toolchains and configurations.

Now, the main build system that we use at work is CMake, it's open
source and full of goodness and other neat things like that, but most
important, it's not 100% tied to the shell interpreter and it works
even with pretty broken makes!

I'm thinking about converting the ctemplate build to a cmake based one
because:
- it'll make it much easier for my colleagues to handle the build
- it will make it easier for me to automate the build process
- I'll have to worry a lot less about the crappyness of the hpux and
aix toolchain

I'd like to know if this might be of interest to others here. If so, I
will try to make the cmake build of a certain quality and post the
resulting build scripts. If there's no interest in this, I'll simply
create a minimal build that does the job and hope that we'll ditch
these pesky old unixes before ctemplate evolves too much to require a
build overhaul :)

Thanks!