[LLVMdev] Is there room for another build system?

Óscar Fuentes
2008-07-30T18:17:34Z

Stefanus Du Toit <sdt at rapidmind.com> writes:

[snip]

> We have considered contributing such a build system, and if we were to
> do so would probably base it on SCons (http://www.scons.org/) because
> we already use SCons extensively.

At first, SCons is what I intended too. But then I read about the KDE
experience and took the safe route :-)

[snip]

> Are you intending for your build system to support all the features of
> the existing make-based build system, e.g. running the test suite,
> supporting cross compilation, etc.?

My initial plan was: if the LLVM devs are interested, go for the whole
pie; if just VC++ people is interested, restrict to VC++. Now that Chris
showed interest, I'll aim at fully replacing the current
system. However, as I'm just learning CMake and the LLVM build system,
things will come as my technical possibilities allows.

Thanks for your feedback.

--
Oscar