[LLVMdev] Is there room for another build system?

[Albert Graef]

Duncan Sands wrote:
> 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).

That's not the only problem with cmake. The autotools may be a big and 
ugly beast, but that's because they're trying to solve a big and ugly 
problem for which there is no silver bullet. And they are still much 
more comprehensive than cmake. I've considered cmake time and again for 
my own projects, but I don't think that it's quite there yet. Here are 
some points worth considering: http://www.remlab.net/op/cmake.shtml 
(Some of these may already be addressed in newer cmake versions, I 
haven't checked recently.)

Albert

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