[LLVMdev] RFC: Timeline for deprecating the autoconf build system?

David Chisnall
2014-11-02T16:48:58Z

On 2 Nov 2014, at 14:17, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de>
wrote:

> Requiring cmake for NetBSD is not acceptable as it is almost as heavy as
> a C++ compiler itself. That said, I don't really care about the
> Makefiles, just about configure and the associated loggic to craete
> Config.h and friends. I would expect FreeBSD to have similar concerns.

For the FreeBSD base system, we use a bmake-based build system for LLVM, but
that is based on the Makefiles generated by CMake.  I believe that we're now
using CMake for the version of LLVM in ports.

David