[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] [3.8 Release] We have branched

[Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for trying out the branch :-)

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Daniel Sanders
<Daniel.Sanders at imgtec.com> wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> I tried the release branch last night and I'm having problems building it. The problem is that test-suite is now building as part of the Phase[123] builds (because this project contains CMakeLists.txt's now) but cmake 3.0.2 (from Debian Jessie) generates an invalid Makefile.
> The error is:
>         CMakeFiles/test-suite.dir/build.make:112: *** target pattern contains no '%'.  Stop.
>         CMakeFiles/Makefile2:199: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/test-suite.dir/all' failed
> And the referenced line of the generated makefile is:
>         test-suite-stamps/test-suite-force-rebuild: /home/das-local/llvm-release-3.8/release/branches_release_38/llvm.src/$<TARGET_FILE:clang>
> it looks like cmake isn't fully expanding its generator expressions.
>
> Looking at my logs, it looks like the test-suite used to configure in 3.6.2 but didn't build as part of test-release.sh and then 3.7.0 stopped since we had switched to cmake and there was no CMakeLists.txt.
> I've always run the test-suite as a separate step as described in http://llvm.org/docs/ReleaseProcess.html. Should we stop creating the projects/test-suite symlink to get back to the behaviour from 3.7.0 or should we do something else?

Yes, I made the script stop making the symlink in r257791 and merged
it to the branch. Did that not work for you, or were you at an earlier
revision?

Thanks,
Hans