winksaville added a comment. > Distributions only get libclang_shared if they run the `install` target which > installs all of LLVM & Clang. The point of `LLVM_DISTRIBUTION_COMPONENTS` is > to allow people constructing distributions to choose which pieces they want > to install without introducing a whole lot of overhead in the build system. > The old method of passing dozens of flags to enable and disable individual > pieces of the build resulted in a combinatoric explosion in build settings > which are confusing and ill understood. The new method is one setting that is > much cleaner to use. > > Anyone constructing a distribution should be specifying > `LLVM_DISTRIBUTION_COMPONENTS` and running the `install-distribution` target.
Is there any documentation for LLVM_DISTRIBUTION_COMPONENTS? I searched llvm-project and didn't find any. The only thing I found on the internet was this LLVM weekly post <http://llvmweekly.org/issue/123>, which pointed me to your llvm-dev post <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-May/098993.html> which says look at Apple-stage2.cmake. I looked at it and there are a bunch of `set` commands and the one occurrance of `set(LLVM_DISTRIBUTION_COMPONENTS` with a list of components. So I thought I'd try the simplest thing possible, pass `-DLLVM_DISTRIBUTION_COMPONENTS` to cmake: $ cmake ../llvm -G Ninja -DLLVM_DISTRIBUTION_COMPONENTS=clang And it failed with: CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1108 (message): Specified distribution component 'clang' doesn't have a target CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1114 (message): Specified distribution component 'clang' doesn't have an install target CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1120 (message): Specified distribution component 'clang' doesn't have an install-stripped target. Its installation target creation should be changed to use add_llvm_install_targets, or you should manually create the 'install-clang-stripped' target. So obviously, that was wrong. Repository: rG LLVM Github Monorepo CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION https://reviews.llvm.org/D61909/new/ https://reviews.llvm.org/D61909 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
