[LLVMdev] LLD Standalone CMake build

Sean Silva
Thu, 08 Jan 2015 23:29:40 -0000

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Greg Fitzgerald <garious at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping to revive the LLD standalone CMake build.
>
>
> Why?
>
> It adds complexity and cost to everyone who has to touch the build system.
>
> Note that even if you're willing to "maintain" the standalone
build, that
> doesn't *really* fix the problem. Lots of folks will need to make
changes
> to the build system, and these types of different supported usage scenarios
> make these much harder to think about, enact, and test.
>
> Having to build and test and install using 3 or 4 different combinations
> of standalone and not standalone is a complete nightmare. I'm pretty
> strongly opposed to more standalone build support unless developers on the
> project have really serious problems with IDE scaling.
>

I doubt IDE scaling would be an issue in this particular scenario. LLD is
so small relative to LLVM that it shouldn't cause a noticeable burden for
the IDE.

-- Sean Silva


> Honestly, if we could fix the IDE scaling, I'd rip all of the
standalone
> build support out of all of our CMake builds.
>
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