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Date:      Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:27:36 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Yanhui Shen <shen.elf@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Why not provide libclang.so in base?
Message-ID:  <20120726152736.GD48162@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:31:04AM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2012-07-18 14:54, Yanhui Shen wrote:
> > I'm using clang-complete plugin in vim,
> > it claims with libclang.so instead of bin/clang it works better.
> >=20
> > However libclang.so is not installed by a default "make buildworld && m=
ake
> > installworld",
> > even with 'WITH_CLANG_EXTRAS=3D"YES"' in src.conf.
>=20
> This is because it would add quite a lot of build overhead to produce
> that .so file: all the object files will need to be recompiled yet again
> for shared library support.
>=20
> That said, we will probably want to provide at least a shared LLVM lib
> in the future, since it can be re-used by other programs.  When that
> happens, it would not be too much extra work to provide a shared Clang
> library.

When I talked to Chris Lattner about shared libraries, his advice was
that under no circumstances should we consider supporting any C++ APIs
=66rom the base system.  We can link tools in the system with them and we
can provide supportable C API wrappers as Apple does, but any port that
links against a libclang.so or libLLVM.so is doomed to break so ports
should link against port versions so they can be updated as needed.

-- Brooks

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