[LLVMdev] fudging the top-level Makefile

David Greene dag at cray.com
Fri Oct 9 13:45:22 PDT 2009


On Thursday 08 October 2009 19:18, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Stuart Hastings wrote:
> > Currently, to get LLVM to build "Apple-style," it's necessary to
> > copy two files (utils/buildit/GNUmakefile and utils/buildit/
> > build_llvm) into the top-level directory.
>
> Why not:
>

> It leaves Makefile mostly alone, all except for three lines at the top
> and one line at the end of it.

Absolutely.  Third-party build systems should impact the public LLVM as little 
as possible.

                                  -Dave



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