On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Matt Corallo <bitcoin-list@bluematt.me> wrote:

would be up to whoever writes the build system. However, autotools is
more standard than CMake, and since its a shell script, you dont have to
install CMake which doesnt come standard on almost any distros (AFAIK).

CMake is also very standard, used by many projects, and is available in many distros.

For debians it's as simple as apt-get install cmake, which is not a big problem as you need to install the other dependencies (such as boost) as well to build.

Fedora/redhat also seems to have the package 'cmake'. I don't think there is any modern distro that doesn't have it as a package.

JS