One of goals for the toolchain prior to the FreeBSD 11 branch is to create a libllvm.so and libclang.so for use by all of the LLVM family tools installed in the base system. This message is just a heads-up in case anyone has questions or comments on the idea.
We currently build a large number of static libs for the llvm and clang components, which are reused in a number of tools in the LLVM family. The resulting binaries end up quite large, and as a group require a lot of disk space. For example, LLDB includes a copy of Clang, used as its expression parser. As a result, on my desktop /usr/bin/clang and /usr/bin/lldb are both 27MB. Over time we may add additional LLVM family tools (e.g., llvm-objdump), and this will help avoid excessive bloat as we do so. I expect libllvm.so and libclang.so will go in /usr/lib/private. _______________________________________________ freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-toolchain To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-toolchain-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
