[PATCH] D131919: Move googletest to the third-party directory

Tom Stellard via Phabricator via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Aug 15 16:37:55 PDT 2022


tstellar added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake:1257
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+set(LLVM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../third-party CACHE STRING
+    "Directory containing third party software used by LLVM (e.g. googletest)")
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stellaraccident wrote:
> Is the implication that this file should only ever be included by top-level sub-projects (i.e. clang, mlir, llvm, etc)? If included from elsewhere, it seems like it won't do the right thing.
> 
> Also, having this as a cache entry is going to make it harder for out of tree projects to define it reliably (requiring various FORCE heroics) -- but I know why you are doing it if trying to define it here.
> 
> As is, this file is included from most of the top-levels and making it a cache variable will have them racing to set it. Why not make it a regular variable? And why not derive it from LLVM_MAIN_SRC_DIR?
I put it in this file so that this variable would be available for stand-alone builds and made it a cache variable so it could be overridden by standalone builds too.

The alternative would be to define this variable in llvm/CMakeLists.txt and then in the stand-alone build handling for each sub-project.  It's a lot of code duplication that way, but we already have a lot of similar duplication in the CMakeLists.txt today (this is something I would like to clean up in the future).

Using LLVM_MAIN_SRC_DIR here breaks stand-alone builds, because LLVM_MAIN_SRC_DIR expands to ../llvm/../, so if I try to build lld, with a directory layout of:

```
lld/ cmake/ third-party/
```

Then CMake won't be able to find the third-party/ directory even though it is in the right place (because llvm/ is missing).  I also think in general, it's cleaner to only use LLVM_MAIN_SRC_DIR when we want to use files in llvm/ and not for finding the root of the monorepo.


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