[llvm-commits] [llvm] r88979 - /llvm/trunk/Makefile

[Daniel Dunbar]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> wrote:
> Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> writes:
>
>>> Don't  build  examples  by  default, use  BUILD_EXAMPLES=1  to  build
>>> them. The only  utility of this is testing that  we keep the examples
>>> up to date, I will just make the buildbots run with this flag.
>>
>> is this really a good idea?  If someone breaks an example, wouldn't it
>> be better for them to discover that directly themselves rather than
>> via a buildbot?  And what about newcomers who want to build examples -
>> aren't they going to have a hard time working out how to build the
>> examples?
>
> FWIW, I agree with Duncan.
>
> The defaults should be newbie-friendly.

The majority of people doing LLVM builds (by volume) are developers,
not newbies. Even newbies aren't likely to care to build the examples
that often, if they actually start using LLVM.

 - Daniel

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