[llvm-dev] [RFC] Removing autoconf from trunk

[Eric Christopher via llvm-dev]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:31 PM Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 09:35:29AM -0800, Chris Bieneman via llvm-dev
> wrote:
> > Now that 3.8 is imminently branching with the newly deprecated autoconf
> > I think it is time to propose a process and timeline for removing
> > autoconf support from trunk.
>
> I don't know about others, but for me autoconf itself is quite useful
> and I would prefer to maintain configure.ac still in the LLVM
> repository. cmake is not an acceptable dependency for NetBSD, but the
> only relevant part for us is the auto-configuring. The Makefiles are
> completely uninteresting.
>
>
For the project we've had the situation where maintaining two build systems
is prone to build breakages of one or the other and have been actively
moving everyone to a single configuration system that can support all of
the various users of the project. It's been announced and worked on fairly
heavily over the last few years.

If you don't have any use for configuration options (i.e. whether or not to
turn on certain features for the build system), it should probably work to
keep the configure script committed locally for NetBSD?

-eric
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