[cfe-dev] is configure+make dead yet?

"C. Bergström" cbergstrom at pathscale.com
Wed Jun 20 23:00:24 PDT 2012


On 06/21/12 12:47 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Nick Lewycky <nlewycky at google.com 
> <mailto:nlewycky at google.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is there anybody who is certain that our autoconf dependency needs
>     to stay around? Are there developers stuck on systems that don't
>     have a recent enough cmake in their most recent release, or maybe
>     are using some features from configure+make that the cmake build
>     system doesn't implement?
>
>     If nobody pipes up, I might actually try actually removing it!
>
>
> FWIW, I'm also under the impression that Apple's internal release 
> process depends on configure+make as well.
clang/llvm are advertised as being independent of Apple.  There's a ton 
of companies using the project, but we should let them speak-up if they 
*really* need it to stay around.

+1 for removing autoconf dep



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