[LLVMdev] Is there room for another build system?

[Duncan Sands]

Hi,

> CMake just requires one plain text file named CMakeLists.txt on every
> source directory, and the only maintenance is to keep up to date the
> list of source files of the directory.

can it be kept up-to-date automagically?  After all, you can query
subversion to get the list of all files in a directory.

>  1. General LLVM users: Are you so happy with `configure' and hand-made
>  makefiles that you wont consider an alternative? If you are interested,
>  I can steer my work to cover all platforms.

Do ordinary users need to have cmake if they want to build llvm?
If so, that's bad because they'll have to install it (unlike the
current setup, where only very standard tools are needed).

Ciao,

Duncan.