[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] is configure+make dead yet?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Jun 21 09:39:09 PDT 2012


On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:13:41PM -0700, Nick Lewycky wrote:
> Is there anybody who is certain that our autoconf dependency needs to stay
> around? Are there developers stuck on systems that don't have a recent
> enough cmake in their most recent release, or maybe are using some features
> from configure+make that the cmake build system doesn't implement?

I don't care much about make, but configure is important for the
bootstrap of LLVM and Clang on NetBSD. Requiring cmake (or Python for
that matter) would be very heavy.

Joerg



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