2009/12/7 steve naroff <snar...@apple.com>: >> As Eric pointed out, you must add CMake to your compiler build chain. >> It's one more tool (and with no third-party dependencies), like the C >> preprocessor, the C compiler and the linker. We did that at work and >> it's no big deal, people are so happy with the pro's of CMake over our >> former buildsystem (Visual C++ projects for Windows and Makefiles for >> Unix, which required twice the amount of maintainance work), they are >> not looking back. >> > > As I said in my initial post, we love CMake for development (since > llvm/clang are cross platform). Developers understand the benefits of > 'cmake'. Unfortunately, developers aren't the only clients building > llvm/clang.
Could you explain that part? Who else is building LLVM/clang besides developers? And what are the reason they give for not wanting to install CMake with their compiler? <half-joke-mode> May be the solution would be to propose the compiler vendor to include CMake in its product, that way they would get CMake "out-of-the-box" :-) <half-joke-mode/> > In any event, maybe adding CMake to our build chain isn't such a big deal. > > Just trying to get the collective wisdom of this group before we make any > changes. Like Pau said I think that if CMake developer (like Bill) do advise to give up "relative path" they must be thinking that with good reason. You are right too, the range of cross-portability targeted by CMake and by llvm/clang may not be the same, and "may be" you can constrain yourself with a subset of CMake current features which makes it possible to do what you want: no CMake use after first generation, only relative path. After that, the question is, is the seeked goal worth the [CMake] feature you loose? -- Erk Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
