On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Matthew Gardiner <m...@csr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 23:40 -0700, Enrico Granata wrote: > > With that said, building LLDB requires building LLVM and clang as > prerequisites. > > So there definitely is a clang available if LLDB is being built. > > I wonder if one could setup things to bootstrap a clang with gcc, and > then rebuild the entire LLVM, clang, lldb toolset with that built clang. > > > > Yes, of course that's possible. But I'd argue that just makes things > more complex, and less attractive for newcomers to the project. > > Incidentally, why does lldb require clang to be built as a prerequisite? > Given that I can use it to debug a linux binary built with gcc, why do I > need to build another compiler along the way? > Because LLDB re-uses parts of Clang ... grep for "clang::" in the codebase and you'll see a lot of it. I personally wish it weren't quite this way and that the layering were different ... but that ship may have sailed a long time ago. - Bruce
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