[LLVMdev] UPDATE: Automake Difficulties (Long)

[Vladimir Prus]

On Friday 22 October 2004 09:21, Chris Lattner wrote:

> > 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...

Ok, then again, I'll try to finish my attempt. If the results are good we can 
talk about handling the dependency. 

- Volodya