[llvm-dev] New TableGen backend for debugging

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos via llvm-dev]

I certainly agree that there are a boatload of CMake options. I haven't even scratched the surface.

In keeping with your suggestion: Is there a way to tell Ninja to build just one target machine?


At 10/7/2020 02:58 PM, Nicolai Hähnle wrote:
>Hi Paul,
>
>On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 3:33 PM Paul C. Anagnostopoulos via llvm-dev
><llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> I'm glad you find it useful. I haven't thought about it being done as part of the build, nor am I any sort of build guru. What do other people think?
>
>I think this overloads the build system. Our build configuration is
>already full of really badly documented options (kind of general
>disease of large CMake-using projects), and it removes the developer
>from what's really going on. I think it would be better to
>
>- Teach people how to invoke TableGen manually
>- Teach people how to determine by themselves how TableGen is invoked
>during the build
>
>Teach a person to fish, and all that.
>
>Cheers,
>Nicolai