[LLVMdev] llvm-config is broken ?

[Óscar Fuentes]

"陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen)" <chenwj at iis.sinica.edu.tw> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 01:24:23PM -0700, sunilsaggar wrote:
>> I am trying to compile llvm in AIX 7.1 machine..
>> 
>> I was able to run "gmake libs-only" and it worked well. However, gmake
>> failed with the following error .. 
>> 
>> # pwd
>> /usr/llvm/llvm-3.1.src/tools
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>   seems you're building in the source tree? Please note that
> LLVM does NOT recommand/support in source tree build [1].
>
> HTH,
> chenwj
>
> [1] http://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html#quick-start

The OP is using the configure+make build process. AFAIK it is ok to
build in-source with that method. CMake is different because the
makefiles generated by that tool would overwrite those distributed with
LLVM sources.