<p>On Jun 22, 2012 9:36 AM, "Konstantin Tokarev" <<a href="mailto:annulen@yandex.ru">annulen@yandex.ru</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 22.06.2012, 19:36, "Joshua Cranmer" <<a href="mailto:pidgeot18@gmail.com">pidgeot18@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> > I decided to try recently to do one of my builds with cmake instead of configure. The problem I hit is before I even try compiling in the first place: cmake /src/llvm --help produces an extremely useless list of options, so it's impossible to figure out how to configure it with cmake without looking up online. Compare this to /src/llvm/configure --help, where I can see what the default build will look like and also how I can tweak it for what I want. Even the online documentation is kind of crappy in this regard: e.g., LLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD doesn't tell you *which* targets you can build in the first place. I'm sure most people who do a lot of cmake know these settings by the back of their hand, but if you're like me and totally clueless when it comes to cmake, it's downright confusing.<br>
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> Well, you can use ccmake to navigate back and forth through available options, their descriptions and values<br>
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<p>The two guis really aren't a good substitute for a helpful command line interface. They miss newbies who expect --help to work on all programs. They help moderate-experience people who need to browse the options. They get in the way of experienced people who want to write scripts that select a set of options without blocking changes in other defaults. And the guis are irrelevant to experts.</p>
<p>Jeffrey</p>