<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 20, 2012, at 6:19 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size: 12px; ">On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Nick Lewycky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nlewycky@google.com" target="_blank">nlewycky@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>If nobody pipes up, I might actually try actually removing it!</div></font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There are definitely missing features in cmake. I'm actually working on adding one of them: support for compiler-rt. There are likely some others.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That said, I actually agree -- I think that cmake, while ugly, can be made to support all of our use cases. There are some use cases that autoconf+make can't support, so I'd rather we just pick cmake and bang on it until it works the way we want.</div></div></font></div></blockquote>Now hold on there. I thought Daniel was supposed to be working on a new build system, based almost entirely in Python, specifically because he thought CMake was, uh... inadequate (to say the least). I've CC'd him in the hopes of getting his opinion.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, +1 for gutting autoconf. I hate it, and it needs to die.</div><div><br></div><div>Chip</div><div><br></div><div>P.S. -- Chandler, please increase the font size in your mail client. It's very small and hard to read.</div></body></html>