Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:53:40 +0200 From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: LLVM: llvm-as, llvm-ld and so on not contained in FreeBSD core contrib? Message-ID: <4E060484.5050905@zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20110625081056.GA28892@freebsd.org> References: <4E059500.40107@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <20110625081056.GA28892@freebsd.org>
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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.
Oliver
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