On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> This is awesome!
>
> I would much prefer to use an external, unmodified version of STP, as
> long as it is properly packaged so that it is possible to write sane
> instructions about how to install and build it. This also assumes that
> STP is stable, or has some stable tags.
>
> The main reason I sucked STP in to the build is that it is very
> important to me that KLEE support objdir != srcdir builds, and the
> simplest way to do that was to integrate it with the LLVM makefiles.
> However, if we just support STP as a configure time library, then that
> also solves this problem.
>
> Please keep me in the loop w.r.t. any discussion with the STP
> developers that will make it possible to do this. Also, have you
> worked at all on the necessary KLEE changes for this (probably as
> simple as ripping out the internal STP and adding a configure option,
> I imagine).

Um, ignore this question, since you obviously attached a patch for
exactly this! :)

It would be cool if we could tweak the patch to use the internal STP
if --with-stp isn't specified, then we could go ahead and put it in
trunk.

 - Daniel

> It should be possible for us to support both options,
> initially, which is nice for comparing the performance of them side by
> side. Do you have any hard numbers that show that the new STP is
> better, or by how much?
>
> ?- Daniel
>
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> 
> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The latest version of STP is a significant improvement over the older
>> version that we are using. ?For example, it can use a much more
>> efficient SAT solver called CryptoMiniSat.
>>
>> I think it would be ideal to be able to use an external unmodified
>> installation of STP. ?That way we can easily integrate new versions
>> of STP as they are developed. ?I am working with the STP developers
>> to try to get STP into a state where Klee can use it unmodified.
>>
>> I am undecided as to whether we should continue to include our own
>> version of STP with Klee. ?I imagine this would make things easier
>> for users but OTOH it could encourage divergence from upstream STP
>> making it harder to integrate new versions.
>>
>> The recent changes to Klee to integrate STP into the LLVM build
>> system may make this harder to do, due to certain paths and filenames
>> having changed.
>>
>> I have had success integrating a recent version of STP and having
>> it pass the tests. ?I am attaching a patch which replaces the
>> in-tree version of STP with an out-of-tree version installed at a
>> path specified at configure time (please note the instructions for
>> applying the patch, supplied inline).
>>
>> If you want to make this work please note that it depends on a patch
>> to STP [1] which has not yet been applied.
>>
>> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/stp-users/t/3eaeac520cbd5978
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Peter
>>
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