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		gaius on Feb 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake CMake is very powerful but unlike most things there’s no underlying principle or theory that when you grasp it, everything just clicks, and you also can transfer the knowledge to other languages. It’s just a matter of memorising lots of tricks and special cases.

ahartmetz on Feb 3, 2019 [–]

This is mostly true about the language but not about the way build artifacts and their dependencies work. That part is pretty solid.

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