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

[Jean-Daniel Dupas]

> Le 18 nov. 2014 à 09:50, Csaba Raduly <rcsaba at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Tim Northover  wrote:
>>> I'm pretty sure that cmake has nothing that is close to the equivalent of
>>> what is in make/platform/clang_darwin.mk, for example.
>> 
>> That's not even really autotools from what I can tell, just really
>> hairy makefiles. As a stepping stone they could probably be invoked
>> directly from CMake (on platforms that have make).
>> 
>> A fully CMake based system would be much better longer term of course
>> (for speed if nothing else).
> 
> Given the kind of makefiles CMake generates (where every single target
> causes an extra invocation of make), I find this hard to believe.
> 

You shouldn’t generate Makefile, and switch to ninja instead, which is way faster.

-- Jean-Daniel