llvm dev - Nov 2021 - Consolidating copies of google/benchmark in the repo (Was: Proposal: introduce dependency on abseil when building benchmarks)

On 11/1/21 10:39 AM, Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:57 AM Chris Lattner via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at
lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I think it would make sense to move third party dependencies out of
llvm-project/llvm for other reasons too, including layering (they can’t depend
on other things in llvm) and license clarity.
> 
> 
> +1, gtest & gmock come to mind.
I'm in favor of this, but gtest currently has a dependency on LLVMSupport.

-Tom
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> On 11/1/21 10:39 AM, Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 11:57 AM Chris Lattner via llvm-dev <llvm-
> dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     I think it would make sense to move third party dependencies out
of
> llvm-project/llvm for other reasons too, including layering (they can’t
> depend on other things in llvm) and license clarity.
> >
> >
> > +1, gtest & gmock come to mind.
> 
> I'm in favor of this, but gtest currently has a dependency on
LLVMSupport.
According to the README we have local patches to support a few targets that
upstream gtest doesn't, and also allow some LLVM types (StringRef etc) to be
used in the printing features.

--paulr