[LLVMdev] building projects/lld or projects/*

[Michael Spencer]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:46 AM, Jay Foad <jay.foad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> - a "configure"-based build only seems to know about projects/sample/
>> and projects/test-suite/, and I couldn't find any way to get it to
>> build projects/lld/.
>
> I investigated a bit more. llvm's autoconf/configure.ac says:
>
> dnl Configure all of the projects present in our source tree. While we could
> dnl just AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS on the set of directories in projects that have a
> dnl configure script, that usage of the AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS macro is deprecated.
> dnl Instead we match on the known projects.
>
> ... and the list of known projects does not include lld. And lld
> doesn't have a configure script, so I guess there's no chance of
> building it in a configure-based build (is there?).
>
> Thanks,
> Jay.

Correct, there is no autoconf based build for lld.

I'll reply to your patch on llvm-commits.

- Michael Spencer