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Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Clang: now available from a SVN server near you!
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Erik Cederstrand wrote:
> 
> LLVM provides a linker (http://llvm.org/cmds/llvm-ld.html) but "it 
> doesn't interact correctly with conventional nm/ar/etc" 
> (http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2009-June/005296.html). 

In what way does it not interact correctly?

Kai Wang wrote a new libarchive-based ar/nm that's
in -CURRENT; we could possibly augment those to work
with llvm-ld or modify llvm-ld to work with them,
depending on the nature of the disagreement.

Tim