Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 10:46:11 -0500 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Migration to dynamic libs for llvm and clang Message-ID: <CAPyFy2DeLiFAW_yS14r1n89r92MFG1sbX88rNgaJshwH9-%2BkQg@mail.gmail.com>
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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.
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