[LLVMdev] Is there room for another build system?

Álvaro Castro Castilla alvaro.castro.castilla at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 14:38:26 PDT 2008


> My knowledge of the LLVM build system is far from complete, but right
> now there is one feature which I think is tricky to implement on CMake:
> if you add/remove a source file, the build system we have now does the
> right thing. In CMake, you are required to update the list of source
> files on the CMakeLists.txt file. Actually, it is possible for CMake to
> read the contents of the source directory on the configure phase, but
> this disallows other interesting things.
>

I solved that in linux  some time ago with little external  macros or
bash scripts, I think.

I did little more than just executing "ls" or "dir" and processing its
output as an string array.


alvaro



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