[LLVMdev] State of build system support in LLVM

[Sylvestre Ledru]

On 26/12/2013 14:19, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> I'm a fairly new maintainer of Gentoo packages for LLVM and clang. I'm
> trying to improve the way LLVM is built on Gentoo, and that's why I'm
> wondering which of the build systems of LLVM is supported better.
>
> As far as I'm aware, LLVM can be currently built using one of the two
> build systems:
>
> - one built on top of autoconf with custom Makefiles,
>
> - the other one built on top of cmake with custom cmake modules.
>From the Debian/Ubuntu perspective, I am using the autotools build system.
As mentioned before, the bug 15732 tracks it. I might be switching to
cmake once it is fixed but until then. I will be using autotools.

I will be happy to help you if you need anything.
Sylvestre