On 06/26/11 15:42, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2011-06-25 17:53, Hartmann, O. wrote:
>> On 06/25/11 10:10, Roman Divacky wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 09:57:52AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
>>>> Hello.
>>>> Just for my couriosity: I'm missing llvm-as, llvm-ld and other
>>>> binutils
>>>> from LLVM and was wondering why they are contained in the port's llvm
>>>> collection but not in FreeBSD's source contribution.
>>>
>>> There's no use for these utilities in FreeBSD base system.
>>>
>>>> I build FreeBSD 9 with CLANG. But as a missing llvm-as and llvm-ld (or
>>>> llvm-ar) would imply, the binaries are generated via binutils from
>>>> theGNU suite, aren't they?
>>> llvm-{as,ld,ar} are not replacements for those from binutils. llvm-*
>>> work on the llvm bitcode only and are of no use for normal object
>>> files.
>>>
>>> dim@ made a patch that adds those utilities if you really need them
>>>
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-toolchain/2011-June/000216.html
>>>
>>>
>>> By default when you compile things with clang it uses its own assembler
>>> (ie. it goes directly from C -> .o) so typically only gnu ld is used
>>> in the compilation chain.
>>>
>>>
>>> roman
>> Thank you very much. Patched and works.
>
> What's the general opinion on applying this to -current? Otherwise
> it'll be sitting in my private tree, possibly bit-rotting. :) For
> people that are experimenting with llvm and/or clang, these additional
> tools might sometimes come in handy.
>
> For normal users, it won't have any impact, except for a few extra
> source files in the tree. These tools will not be built by default.
Is there a chance to get the missing pieces of LLVM built by the above
mentioned method enabled in /etc/src.conf? As I can see,
even in FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT the LLVM stuff didn't make it in. My built
is quite old, since I added the patch three months has been passed by ...
Regards,
Oliver
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