[LLVMdev] RFC: Timeline for deprecating the autoconf build system?

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 04:48:58PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 2 Nov 2014, at 14:17, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> 
> > Requiring cmake for NetBSD is not acceptable as it is almost as heavy as
> > a C++ compiler itself. That said, I don't really care about the
> > Makefiles, just about configure and the associated loggic to craete
> > Config.h and friends. I would expect FreeBSD to have similar concerns.
> 
> For the FreeBSD base system, we use a bmake-based build system for LLVM,
> but that is based on the Makefiles generated by CMake.  I believe that
> we're now using CMake for the version of LLVM in ports.

The primary question is how do you create Config.h and friends,
especially the tools version during early release build.

Joerg