Re: Whither USE_CMAKE?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Jörg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes:

> On 5/24/24 12:01 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> While there is this phase out idea, I'm not sure we've ever said that
>> USE_CMAKE is deprecated.
>
> There is also a major caveat with devel/cmake/build.mk: it is much more
> position sensitive. Having to debug Python packages that no longer got
> the right CMAKE_ARGS was not fun...

Not saying you are wrong about that!

I don't see that mentioned in the comments in devel/cmake/build.mk.

I have been finding it placed in the bl3 esction, and this is "obviousy
wrong", because it is not a bl3 file, but TOOL_DEPENDS and also
additional targets.

Could you add a comment near the top of devel/cmake/build.mk that gives
a rule for what it must be before or after?   And explains why, since
makefile ordering is non-obvious.

Absent specific requirements, it seems obvious to me that it belongs
with USE_TOOLS/TOOL_DEPENDS early on.