[LLVMdev] UPDATE: Automake Difficulties (Long)

[Chris Lattner]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, John Criswell wrote:
> Alkis Evlogimenos wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >>Is anything with "Boost" in name will be rejected right away?
> >
> >
> > Absolutely not! We were using one of the boost libraries before and we
> > replaced it because it was easy to do and it removed one external dependency
> > for us, not because it had the "Boost" in name :-)
> >
>
> Another consideration is that we try to limit the number of external
> tools needed to build LLVM.  One difficulty with using a non-make build
> system is that users would need to download another build tool before
> building LLVM, and for some, that is too much work.

I agree with John, but assuming that boost.build was small enough to
include with the distro, I think that it might be a big win.  Just being
able to support win32 and unix targets with a single build would be a VERY
nice thing...

-Chris

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