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

Csaba Raduly
Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:50:42 -0000

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Tim Northover  wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure that cmake has nothing that is close to the
equivalent of
>> what is in make/platform/clang_darwin.mk, for example.
>
> That's not even really autotools from what I can tell, just really
> hairy makefiles. As a stepping stone they could probably be invoked
> directly from CMake (on platforms that have make).
>
> A fully CMake based system would be much better longer term of course
> (for speed if nothing else).

Given the kind of makefiles CMake generates (where every single target
causes an extra invocation of make), I find this hard to believe.

Csaba
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