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

[Mason Wheeler]

>From: David Röthlisberger <david at rothlis.net>
>Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] is configure+make dead yet?
>
>If the following statement is true, then which build system to choose
>is a no-brainer:

>> cmake, while ugly, can be made to support all of our use cases. There
>> are some use cases that autoconf+make can't support
>-- Chandler Carruth, On 21 Jun 2012, at 01:19

Unfortunately,
 when CMake is not even capable of one of the most fundamental tasks 
that anyone would care to use LLVM for, namely setting up project files 
to build LLVM as a DLL so they can build a compiler atop it, it can 
hardly be said to support all use cases!