[LLVMdev] Is there room for another build system?

[Kenneth Boyd]

Samuel Crow wrote:
> Hi Kenneth,
>
> If the LLVM project is switching to CMake, then CTest might be the framework of choice to use rather than scripting up something in Bash.
>   
I wouldn't care to try to defend the time overhead in rewriting the test 
cases for another framework.  Thus, I'm requiring my proposed alternate 
test framework to use DejaGNU test cases.  The bash scripting is simply 
so that I can *use* the test cases.

Also, I'm not seeing support for platform-specific testing controlled 
from within the testcase (DejaGNU feature) openly documented for CTest.  
(I do not think the Dashboard approach is robust enough.)  So even if 
CTest could use the existing test cases verbatim, it looks harder to 
maintain.

Kenneth