[cfe-dev] Building clang outside of LLVM (with CMake)

[Óscar Fuentes]

Chris Pick <llvm at chrispick.com> writes:

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> Now I'd like to use the
> official git mirrors so I will be able to easily push/pull from the
> rest of the LLVM/clang ecosystem in the future without having to rely
> on any third party repositories.

Good luck with that :-/ You know that committing a git revision to svn
means rebasing, which in turn means that the revision adquires a new
identity, and then everyone who had that revision gets confused, right?
(Just an observation, let's not start a discussion about combined
git/svn development.)

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> I'd appreciate any feedback, especially any thoughts on whether this
> sound safe and valid.  If my approach makes sense, hopefully something
> similar to my patch could be applied to the clang repo (something
> better than commenting out the build directory check would probably be
> required, but I didn't come up with anything while I was trying to get
> this to work).

Every new supported build setup introduces a large cost on terms of
maintenance. Sorry, but I don't think that your case justifies that
work.

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