[LLVMdev] Arm port

[Chuck Robey]

Samuel Crow wrote:
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>> From: Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org>
>> To: LLVM Developers Mailing List <llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu>
>> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 9:22:53 AM
>> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Arm port
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>> OK, I've got enough to go on with, and I'm getting ready right now to begin
>> reading the dragon book, but one question bothers me regarding the present setup
>> of llvm: the use of the present Makefile tools (dmake & gmake).  I was rather
>> surprised to find that a project that is bent toward supporting the BSD Unixes
>> doesn't have a set of BSD Makefiles.  I'm not saying you  have to toss away your
>> dmake/gmake files, you could keep them for those who feel more at ease in using
>> them, but shouldn't you have a set of BSD makefiles also?  It happens that I
>> have experience using those makefiles, and adding in a set of Makefiles designed
>> to allow use of the BSD Make and the BSD Make template files (all those files in
>> /usr/share/mk on any *BSD system wouldn't be all that difficult to accomplish,
>> Would that be something you might wish to add?
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> Doesn't CMake support the BSD toolchain?  The autotools dependencies of LLVM are slowly being replaced by the cross-platform CMake utility that will generate the makefiles or IDE build solutions for whatever toolchain you're using.

The build I saw was using Cmake to drive Gmake, but let me get hold of the
latest release and see if that's still the way of things.  Gmake makefiles will
generally not run in bsd make, and certainly no Gmake Makefile can make any use
whatever of the bsd.*.mk template makefiles that are commonly used in all bsd
builds.

But let me verify this, I'll get back to you.

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