[llvm-commits] [PATCH][CMake] Removing LLVMLibDeps.cmake and exporting libraries for CMake clients.

[Rafael Espindola]

> There are numerous benefits to explicitly-maintained library dependencies:
>        - It's clear what those dependencies are, which leads to better understanding of the system as a whole
>
>        - Changes in dependencies, which are fundamentally architectural changes, become obvious when they happen
>
>        - Dependencies can make their way into other tools far more easily, e.g., component-based CPack installers  (e.g., http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/CMake:Component_Install_With_CPack)
>
>        - It's clean and easy-to-understand, unlike our implicit dependency-generation scripts (and mapping from those to CMake dependencies)
>
>        - On the "make" side of the world, explicit dependencies could improve build performance by exposing more parallelism. CMake-generated make files build faster than the autotools-generated makefiles, partly for this reason

+1

Ideally we would have manually declared and automatically checked
dependencies. Even better if both the auto* and the cmake build used
the same list, but this is already an improvement.

Cheers,
-- 
Rafael Ávila de Espíndola