Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:10:56 +0200 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> To: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> 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: <20110625081056.GA28892@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4E059500.40107@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4E059500.40107@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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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
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