[LLVMdev] Keeping CMakeLists.txt up-to-date.

[Kenneth Boyd]

Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Kenneth Boyd <zaimoni at zaimoni.com> writes:
>
>   
> .....
>>  From the existence of the dependency-tracker scripts, it obviously was 
>> a problem for autoconf as well.
>>     
>
> This seems a different issue, but are those dependency-tracker scripts
> for tracking dependencies among cpp files and its headers? CMake gives
> you this for free and it is not restricted to gcc.
>   
GenLibDeps.pl tracks direct dependencies between the primary library and 
object files intended to be linked (*.a and *.o on a *NIX-like system).  
Other parts of the LLVM build modifications to autoconf walk this to 
determine which libraries have to be linked in.

Kenneth