[LLVMdev] Arm port

[Samuel Crow]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org>
> To: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 9:22:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Arm port
>
> OK, I've got enough to go on with, and I'm getting ready right now to begin
> reading the dragon book, but one question bothers me regarding the present setup
> of llvm: the use of the present Makefile tools (dmake & gmake).  I was rather
> surprised to find that a project that is bent toward supporting the BSD Unixes
> doesn't have a set of BSD Makefiles.  I'm not saying you  have to toss away your
> dmake/gmake files, you could keep them for those who feel more at ease in using
> them, but shouldn't you have a set of BSD makefiles also?  It happens that I
> have experience using those makefiles, and adding in a set of Makefiles designed
> to allow use of the BSD Make and the BSD Make template files (all those files in
> /usr/share/mk on any *BSD system wouldn't be all that difficult to accomplish,
> Would that be something you might wish to add?

Doesn't CMake support the BSD toolchain?  The autotools dependencies of LLVM are slowly being replaced by the cross-platform CMake utility that will generate the makefiles or IDE build solutions for whatever toolchain you're using.