[LLVMdev] Deprecating autoconf/make?

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi All,
> 
> I fear starting another centi-thread on this but I'll give it a shot.
> 
> We're currently supporting two build systems which is definitely one
> more than we (or I) want to support.
> 
> I don't know of any support in autoconf past the
> --host/--build/--target case that's not supported in cmake. I'll send
> out an assertion here that this support isn't necessary and any
> system
> that needs it can instead move to:
> 
> build native clang
> build next clang with some target that supplies a sysroot and a
> -target option to the native clang
> 
> Can anyone see good a reason not to move to cmake as our only build
> configuration system and drop future support for autoconf + makefiles
> now that 3.3 has branched?

We still need to add CMake support to the test suite, right?

 -Hal

> 
> -eric
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