[llvm-dev] Consolidating copies of google/benchmark in the repo (Was: Proposal: introduce dependency on abseil when building benchmarks)

[Mircea Trofin via llvm-dev]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:57 AM Chris Lattner <clattner at nondot.org> wrote:

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> > On Oct 29, 2021, at 7:00 AM, Michael Kruse <llvmdev at meinersbur.de>
> wrote:
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> > Am Mo., 25. Okt. 2021 um 10:18 Uhr schrieb Mircea Trofin <
> mtrofin at google.com>:
> >> Circling back from https://reviews.llvm.org/D112012 - would having
> google/benchmark under a new `llvm-project/third-party` work, instead of
> `llvm-project/llvm/utils`? (rationale there, TL;DR; libcxx (and other
> runtimes) wants to detach itself from anything `llvm-project/llvm`)
> >
> > It would be only part of the solution as libcxx also depends on other
> > things in llvm-project/llvm (CMake modules, lit, ...). If the goal is
> > to make libcxx etc independent of the /llvm we should find out where
> > those other dependencies go. Until then, IMHO there is nothing wrong
> > to have libcxx depend on /llvm/utils/benchmark since it has /llvm is
> > needed to build libc++ anyway.
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> I think it would make sense to move third party dependencies out of
> llvm-project/llvm for other reasons too, including layering (they can’t
> depend on other things in llvm) and license clarity.

sounds good, so I'll create a 'third-party' dir, unless there's a strong
desire for a different name


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-Chris
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