[LLVMdev] Building LLVM with cmake on FreeBSD

[Török Edwin]

On 2009-05-24 20:38, Chuck Robey wrote:
> Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>   
>> Chuck Robey <chuckr at telenix.org> writes:
>>
>>     
>>>> Just checked that the makefiles generated by cmake work with `make' on
>>>> FreeBSD 7.2 x86. The build fails while building `opt' because libdl is
>>>> missing.
>>>>         
>>> They absolutely do work, even on FreeBSD-current( I run that here),
>>> but not using the native make (the one built as part of "make world"
>>> which is a direct descendant of "pmake".  You have to use the GNU
>>> make,
>>>       
>> Uh? My FreeBSD installment has `make' and no `gmake'. `make' is indeed
>> BSD make.
>>
>> So, to recap, right now LLVM svn builds fine on FreeBSD 7.2 using BSD
>> `make' with the makefiles generated by cmake.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>     
>>> I did give you one example of a statement I found in your makefiles,
>>> which I'm absolutely certain can't be understood by our make.
>>>       
>> It is obvious that you are not reading what I write.
>>     
>
> Not completely, because (at least to me) it's not making sense against what I
> find.  I'd been lookiing at the llvm version 2.3, so I just got a copy of 2.5,
> and I looked at the Makefile that came right out of the tarball, then I
> regenerated the Makefile via the supplied configure script.  Right at the top of
> both Makefiles is the GNU-style conditional "ifeq", and that's a GNU
> conditional,

If you want to use the CMake build system, don't run configure.
configure is just plain old autoconf, that uses the supplied GNU makefiles.

See http://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html on how to use cmake, you should look
at the makefiles that cmake creates,
not configure.


Best regards,
--Edwin