[LLVMdev] Is there room for another build system?

[Kenneth Boyd]

Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> [As this is turning off-topic, feel free to switch to private email]
>   
Agreed; let's see if my local ISP's DNS is working now.
> Kenneth Boyd <zaimoni at zaimoni.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I've been using MSYS' for slightly over a decade now.
>>     
>
> Is MSYS so old? IIRC its existence was first made public on 2001. At the
> time I was an active MinGW-ist. (I'm getting old... :-)
>   
That far back, my memory is fuzzy.  One of my internal C++ projects was 
forced into it no later than early 2000, as it wouldn't compile on any 
other C++ compiler.
> [snip]
>
>   
>> The reason CMake won't build "out of the box" for me, is that it's 
>> *misapplying* the CygWin workarounds to MinGW -- and then refusing to 
>> write out something for me to fix up.
>>     
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> I'm having success building the LLVM libraries with CMake 2.6.1 on
> MSYS, where 2.6 failed, IIRC. Maybe this was fixed.
>   
I will double-check, then.  (2.6.0 was the most recent available when I 
downloaded to test before commenting).

Best regards,
Kenneth