[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] RFC: Upcoming Build System Changes

David A. Greene greened at obbligato.org
Tue Nov 1 13:20:43 PDT 2011


Óscar Fuentes <ofv at wanadoo.es> writes:

> greened at obbligato.org (David A. Greene) writes:
>
>> Hmm...it's a build system, right?  There's not much to add, really.
>> Build systems should be really simple.  All they need is dependencies
>> and rules to build stuff.
>
> Oh, yes, sure, you're right. <g>

Can't tell if you're being snarky or not...

>> What sorts of features can you imagine we'd want to add?
>
> That's a question for Daniel. He is who's saying that his proposal will
> make the build(s) more flexible, extensible, etc.

Er?  This is your statement, isn't it?

  > In fact, as your proposed system deals with both build systems it acts
  > as a common denominator, thus restricting the evolution of them, as some
  > features that could be easy to implement on cmake but difficult on
  > `make' now must go through your scripts, which act as a deterrent.

I'm trying to understand what you are worried about WRT a "common
denominator."

                           -Dave




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