Hi Ed, Please can we have a name other than libclang, to avoid name collisions and confusion with, uh, libclang? libcfe maybe?
David On 16 Dec 2014, at 15:46, Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
