[LLVMdev] RFC: I plan to remove the autoconf and Makefile build of LLD

[Greg Fitzgerald]

+1, thanks!

-Greg

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Davide Italiano <davide at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This time with the correct mailing list address... See below...
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> 1) We're moving away from autoconf already today. We're hoping to drop it
>>> completely soon.
>>> 2) It doesn't work today and no one is complaining.
>>> 3) It hasn't worked for weeks and no one has complained.
>>>
>>> Due to #2 and #3, I believe it is dead code. I can't even test my changes
>>> to it because it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> I don't want to invest time fixing it if we're moving the other direction.
>>>
>>> -Chandler
>>
>>
>
> I'm really in favour of axing them. Thanks for taking care of it.
>
> --
> Davide
>
> "There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more
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