[llvm-dev] wasteful cmake defaults

[Philip Reames via llvm-dev]

On 11/20/2020 12:05 PM, Tom Stellard wrote:
> On 11/20/20 2:44 PM, Michael Kruse via llvm-dev wrote:
>> Am Fr., 20. Nov. 2020 um 13:23 Uhr schrieb Philip Reames via llvm-dev
>> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
>>> Personally, I think we should either a) change the defaults or b) 
>>> put a prominent warning in the docs.
>>
>> https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html#common-problems
>>
>> Should it be more prominent?
>>
>
> I don't think having this documented is all that helpful.  I know that 
> when I build a new project, if I see it has cmake, I just do cmake -G 
> Ninja && ninja and don't bother reading the docs.

Tom, you are definitely not the new user I'm worried about.  :)

Think undergrad w/little to no open source experience.

>
> I think it would make the most sense to change the default to be 
> Release+Asserts, because this is the most likely configuration to work 
> on the average system.
+1
>
> -Tom
>
>> Michael
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