[LLVMdev] Is there room for another build system?

[Albert Graef]

Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Some points you mention on your web page are solved.

Which ones? (Just curious.)

> Others are not applicable to LLVM.

That might be the case now, but the lack of even basic functionality in 
some areas (in particular, no advanced feature checks, no make 
dist/distcheck, no make uninstall, lack of useful trace options when 
something goes wrong during a build, arcane user interface) might well 
become major roadblocks in the future.

The broken mingw support (as pointed out by Stuart) would already be a 
major showstopper for me (and probably for many others who rely on mingw 
to ease the creation of native Windows ports).

I do understand that you need a solution for MSVC where autoconf et al 
don't help much and cmake makes things much easier. But throwing out the 
current build system in favour of cmake is only a viable option if it 
works (at least) on all platforms supported by LLVM right now, as well 
as it does right now. That remains to be proven. Otherwise you just pass 
the buck from MSVC developers to everyone else.

Albert

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