llvm dev - Mar 2015 - [LLVMdev] RFC: I plan to remove the autoconf and Makefile build of LLD

This time with the correct mailing list address... See below...

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Why?
>
> 1) We're moving away from autoconf already today. We're hoping to
drop it
> completely soon.
> 2) It doesn't work today and no one is complaining.
> 3) It hasn't worked for weeks and no one has complained.
>
> Due to #2 and #3, I believe it is dead code. I can't even test my
changes
> to it because it doesn't work.
>
> I don't want to invest time fixing it if we're moving the other
direction.
>
> -Chandler
>
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I'd agree, but the Makefiles were added just 9 months ago. I don't know
if
there's a real need of any kind. Added Iain who added these files.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
wrote:
> This time with the correct mailing list address... See below...
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Why?
>>
>> 1) We're moving away from autoconf already today. We're hoping
to drop it
>> completely soon.
>> 2) It doesn't work today and no one is complaining.
>> 3) It hasn't worked for weeks and no one has complained.
>>
>> Due to #2 and #3, I believe it is dead code. I can't even test my
changes
>> to it because it doesn't work.
>>
>> I don't want to invest time fixing it if we're moving the other
direction.
>>
>> -Chandler
>>
>
>
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
wrote:
> This time with the correct mailing list address... See below...
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> 1) We're moving away from autoconf already today. We're hoping
to drop it
>> completely soon.
>> 2) It doesn't work today and no one is complaining.
>> 3) It hasn't worked for weeks and no one has complained.
>>
>> Due to #2 and #3, I believe it is dead code. I can't even test my
changes
>> to it because it doesn't work.
>>
>> I don't want to invest time fixing it if we're moving the other
direction.
>>
>> -Chandler
>
>
I'm really in favour of axing them. Thanks for taking care of it.

-- 
Davide

"There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more
or less solved" -- Henri Poincare

I'm fine keeping this until we can undertake the larger effort, but:

1) No build bot seems to be testing it.
2) No active developers (on any part of LLVM) seem to be testing it.

So I fear that it isn't sustainable in its current state.

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:
> I'd agree, but the Makefiles were added just 9 months ago. I don't
know if
> there's a real need of any kind. Added Iain who added these files.
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This time with the correct mailing list address... See below...
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at
gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> 1) We're moving away from autoconf already today. We're
hoping to drop
>>> it completely soon.
>>> 2) It doesn't work today and no one is complaining.
>>> 3) It hasn't worked for weeks and no one has complained.
>>>
>>> Due to #2 and #3, I believe it is dead code. I can't even test
my
>>> changes to it because it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> I don't want to invest time fixing it if we're moving the
other
>>> direction.
>>>
>>> -Chandler
>>>
>>
>>
>
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+1, thanks!

-Greg

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Davide Italiano <davide at freebsd.org>
wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at
gmail.com> wrote:
>> This time with the correct mailing list address... See below...
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at
gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> 1) We're moving away from autoconf already today. We're
hoping to drop it
>>> completely soon.
>>> 2) It doesn't work today and no one is complaining.
>>> 3) It hasn't worked for weeks and no one has complained.
>>>
>>> Due to #2 and #3, I believe it is dead code. I can't even test
my changes
>>> to it because it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> I don't want to invest time fixing it if we're moving the
other direction.
>>>
>>> -Chandler
>>
>>
>
> I'm really in favour of axing them. Thanks for taking care of it.
>
> --
> Davide
>
> "There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more
> or less solved" -- Henri Poincare

I have fixed the issue locally, but been out of the office - can apply the fix -
or just maintain the makefiles locally if no-one else really wants them,

fine with whatever the community decision is.
Iain

On 11 Mar 2015, at 22:11, Rui Ueyama wrote:
> I'd agree, but the Makefiles were added just 9 months ago. I don't
know if there's a real need of any kind. Added Iain who added these files.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at
gmail.com> wrote:
> This time with the correct mailing list address... See below...
> 
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Why?
> 
> 1) We're moving away from autoconf already today. We're hoping to
drop it completely soon.
> 2) It doesn't work today and no one is complaining.
> 3) It hasn't worked for weeks and no one has complained.
> 
> Due to #2 and #3, I believe it is dead code. I can't even test my
changes to it because it doesn't work.
> 
> I don't want to invest time fixing it if we're moving the other
direction.
> 
> -Chandler
> 
> 
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