[MESOS-3105] Port flag generation logic from the autotools solution to CMake

• Type: Task
• Status: Accepted
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: cmake
• Labels: autotools build cmake
• Epic Link: deprecate autotools build
• Story Points: 3
• Assignee: Joseph Wu
• Reporter: Andrew Schwartzmeyer
• Shepherd: Joseph Wu
• Created: 21/Jul/15 00:39
• Updated: 02/Jul/20 16:56

Description

One major barrier to widespread adoption of the CMake-based build system (other than the fact that we haven't implemented it yet!) is that most of our institutional knowledge of the quirks of how to build Mesos across many platforms is tied up in files like `configure.ac`.

Therefore, a "good" CMake-based build system will require us to go through these files systematically and manually port this logic to CMake (as well as testing it).