https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536780



--- Comment #9 from Ron Olson <tachokni...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Ron Olson from comment #8)
> I've been playing around with a downloaded copy of Swift in conjunction with
> an installed copy of lldb and I believe that the swift binary is explicitly
> looking for lldb in the same directory to run the REPL; I've asked on the
> Swift forums to confirm my findings. 
> 
> It seems that the copy of lldb is inclusive of existing functionality (i.e.
> I tested that it also debugs C/C++ executables as well), but that doesn't
> really matter insofar as it's not the same copy that ships with the existing
> lldb rpm. I believe the lldb that is included with Swift is essentially a
> fork with additional functionality to support Swift. 
> 
> I'd like to float the possibility of allowing the installation to be put in
> /opt/fedora per
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Limited_usage_of_.2Fopt.
> 2C_.2Fetc.2Fopt.2C_and_.2Fvar.2Fopt. I'm looking to get more
> information/confirmation from the Swift group before making the formal
> proposal.

I was looking at the wrong repo for llvm/lldb...they seem to have references to
Swift so I'm currently building the latest version of llvm/lldb and see what's
available; it may be possible to just tie Swift with a later version of LLDB so
that the two can coexist.

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