[LLVMdev] [RFC] Progress report on CMake build system's ability to replace autoconf

[Jonathan Roelofs]

On 2/3/15 12:08 PM, Chris Bieneman wrote:
> Here's the outstanding work and my (not necissarily correct) view of the status and importance of each one:
>
> * Bug 14109 - CMake build for compiler-rt should use just-built clang
>    - Still waiting for patches, I don't think this is a blocker
>
We consider this one a blocker. We shouldn't be assuming that we have 
available a compiler capable of doing build->target or host->target, 
other than the host->target one that is the just-built clang.

I've heard discussions in the past about this restriction of cmake, but 
I don't remember the details. Is this something where we could up the 
minimum required version of cmake to get features we'd need to use in 
the CMakeLists.txt's? Is there a way to work around it?


Having a bootstrap flag for the cmake configure would make it less of a 
blocker, though I'd still prefer not to have to boostrap every build. 
IIRC, Chandler has some notes on the right way to pull that off.


Cheers,

Jon
>
> -Chris
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