Questions

To reinforce what you have learned in this chapter, try to answer the following questions. If you are having a hard time answering them, go back to the relevant section and re-visit the topic:

1. Describe how a CMake project can be configured from the CLI into the build folder in the project’s root directory with each of the following:
   1. A different C++ compiler, located at /usr/bin/clang++
   2. A Ninja generator
   3. A -Wall compiler flag for the Debug build type
2. Describe how the project previously configured in Q1 can be built using CMake using the command line with each of the following:
   1. Eight parallel jobs
   2. The --trace option in the Unix Makefiles generator
3. Describe how the project previously built in Q1 can be installed using CMake using the directory/opt/project command line?
4. Assuming the CMake-Best-Practices project is already configured and built, which command must be invoked to only install the ch2.libraries component?
5. What is an advanced variable in CMake...