[LLVMdev] "ninja update" not working.

Mikael Lyngvig mikael at lyngvig.org
Mon Jun 18 02:52:32 PDT 2012


That's just what I did.  And that's what I'm including in the Windows doc
too.  Huzzah, me am on top of it!  ;-)

2012/6/18 Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The docs state that you can do a "make update" to update all top-level
>> and embedded projects from Subversion.
>
>
> This is a feature of the configure+make build system, and not a feature of
> the CMake build system. I also don't have any real desire to support it as
> part of the CMake build system, I think it was always a flawed idea to
> implement version control commands as part of a build system.
>
> For example, I never, *ever* to in-tree builds, and a usually have many
> different builds associated with a single source repository. This makes the
> semantics of 'make update' quite confusing.
>
> I suggest writing the 4 line shell script (or the Windows analog to a
> 4-line shell script) that updates your tree.
>



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