On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Chris Bieneman via Phabricator < revi...@reviews.llvm.org> wrote:
> beanz added a comment. > > Building libcxx without LLVM's CMake modules is very important, not just > to Apple. *Why* is it important? The reason isn't obvious to me. The only additional cost is downloading the LLVM sources, and I don't see why that's show stopping. Sure it takes *slightly longer* than before, but that can't be the issue here, is it? > This is how several open source distributions work, and it would be a huge > disservice to break this. Same is true for compiler-rt, libcxxabi, > libunwind, etc. > > Historically we've been drawing the line that building and running tests > for runtime projects can require LLVM, but building the runtime libraries > themselves must work without LLVM. I believe that is still the correct line > to draw. > > > https://reviews.llvm.org/D31363 > > > >
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