[cfe-dev] [libcxx] build system questions

[sashan]

On Mon Dec  6 03:18:23 2010, Chandler Carruth wrote:
>    On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:05 AM, sashan <sashan at zenskg.net> wrote:
> 
>      >
>      > >
>      > > Of course, that does not solve the dependency problem, but at least
>      I
>      > > did not experience any problems with .dylib afterwards.
>      >
>      > On the dependency-checking issue: A The build time is currently about
>      a minute.
>      > Imho this does not rise to the level of needing dependency checking to
>      speed
>      > things up. A That being said, if someone wants to add dependency
>      checking and
>      > it /does/ result in a speedup, I'd welcome it. A One requirement:
>      A The list of
>      > headers and sources must be implicit. A I dislike explicit lists
>      because they
>      > seem to me a continual source of errors.
> 
>      Yeah I can look into this. What are your thoughts on using
>      autoconf/automake for this?
>      The 'parent' projects clang and llvm use them.
> 
>    For reference, they don't use automake, and autoconf is one of the most
>    painful constructs ever devised in the realm of build systems. I would
>    want evidence of a very large problem indeed before solving it with
>    autoconf, and there doesn't seem to be one currently.

I don't really care for the autotools stuff either. I suggested it because it
was in use by the parent projects and it's widely used in other projects.