[llvm-dev] [RFC] October Update: Progress report on CMake build system's ability to replace autoconf

[Tom Stellard via llvm-dev]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 12:05:59PM -0700, Chris Bieneman via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hi LLVMDev,
> 
> It has been a while since I last sent out an update on this work, so I thought I'd send one this month.
> 
> The following issues have been marked as fixed since the last update I sent out.
> * Bug 21562 - Add a CMake equivalent for make/platform/clang_darwin.mk in compiler_rt
> * Bug 24154 - CMake shared files are broken in llvm-3.7-dev
> 
> These issues are still outstanding. Classification of blocking vs non-blocking are my own opinions, please let me know if you disagree. All non-blocking issues are still serious bugs that need to be fixed.
> 
> Blocking Issues:
> * Bug 14200 - -fno-rtti not in cxxflags given by llvm-config (Patches out for review http://reviews.llvm.org/D11849)
> * Bug 14109 - CMake build for compiler-rt should use just-built clang
> * Bug 21568 - Cannot add rpath
> * Bug 23947 - CMake+Mips: find_library() doesn't work correctly when recursing 64-bit (both N32 and N64 ABI's) compiler on Debian Jessie
> 

I just filed: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=25059 which in my
opinion is also a blocking issue.

-Tom

> Non-Blocking Issues:
> * Bug 19875 - libraries and executables need different rpaths
> * Bug 22466 - cmake build should provide way to run tablegen with no arguments
> * Bug 23746 - test-suite lacks CMake support
> * Bug 24157 - CMake built shared library does not export all public symbols
> * Bug 24919 - [autoconf -> cmake] libclang.a is not packaged in the Ubuntu x86_64 pre-built
> 
> Other issues not tracked by bugs:
> 
> * FreeBSD seemed to have problems with CMake identifying itself as amd64 causing x86_64 tests to fail
> * Migrating buildbots
> * We need to make sure libc++ works properly on Darwin
> * Put together a “cheat sheet” document for transitioning
> 
> Thank you everyone who has helped out to get us this far. We're getting awfully close now!
> 
> Thanks,
> -Chris
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