[llvm-dev] Should we split llvm Support and ADT?

[Matthias Braun via llvm-dev]

> On May 30, 2017, at 3:54 PM, Pete Cooper via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>> On May 30, 2017, at 3:52 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at bec.de> wrote:
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>> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 03:49:38PM -0700, Pete Cooper via llvm-dev wrote:
>>> Aw, but i had a list of issues, such as:
>>> - tablegen doesn’t generate .d files
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>> Actually, it does if asked to.
> Oh, thanks.  Thats good to know.
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> I don’t know if ninja uses the .d as the source of real deps, or if it still includes those deps emitted by CMake.  Will take a look.
ninja certainly supports reading dependencies from .d files. I think the actual problem here is that there is no way to have cmake's add_custom_command() generate the necessary ninja depfile/deps directives.

- Matthias