An increasing set of llama.cpp build configurations, particularly at
lower optimization levels, go just beyond COFF limitations and require
the "newer" bigobj COFF format in order to build.
It didn't quite work out-of-the-box because it needed server assets and
build-info.cpp. On my system, the generated files were left behind from
an old build, so I didn't notice.
The official llama.cpp CMake build has a bug where build-info.cpp is
generated in the original source tree, not the build directory, and so
concurrent out-of-tree builds race to produce incorrect binaries. This
makefile avoids a conflict by using a unique name.
This library can be installed to a path with spaces, so all instances of
the prefix must be quoted. Though Autoconf does not support paths with
spaces and will not be able to use such installations.
I was initially impressed with its output, but over time I've found it
less and less useful. I hardly use it anymore, and it would at best be
neglected if left in the distribution. The build script is retained in
the contrib/ directory, and it's easy to build natively from source.
