xiaobai added a comment.

I personally prefer the third approach. To make sure I understand correctly, 
I'll write it in my own words so you can correct me if I misunderstood.
Try to find the dependency, and if we find it then use it. If not, then we can 
print out something like "Didn't find `DEPENDENCY`" and continue on our merry 
way. If the user overwrites the values and something goes wrong, send a fatal 
error and tell them that what the value they set isn't going to work without 
further work (e.g. explicitly enable python support but didn't find python? 
tell the user that you couldn't find python and maybe suggest setting some 
other CMake variables to help CMake find python).

I think that we should emphasize UX here. While I think that everybody could 
benefit from understanding the build system better, helping the user understand 
that their settings don't work (and why they don't work) goes a long way.


Repository:
  rLLDB LLDB

CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION
  https://reviews.llvm.org/D71306/new/

https://reviews.llvm.org/D71306



_______________________________________________
lldb-commits mailing list
lldb-commits@lists.llvm.org
https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lldb-commits

Reply via email to