[llvm-dev] For the LLVM wishlist

[Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:45:03AM +0200, ardi via llvm-dev wrote:
> What I found is that the build system is really complex, performs many
> checks, and quite often takes wrong decisions (example: a fatal error
> if the OS X version is older than 10.7, instead of just disabling
> sanitizers and continuing with the build --moreover, if you manually
> disable the sanitizers build, its tests are not disabled at make
> check-all, so you end up with many tests failing because of a
> component you didn't build).

Huh? If you check out only llvm and clang, nothing is checked for the
sanitizers, they don't get built and they don't get tested.

Joerg