[cfe-commits] [patch] installing clang-check as part of clang

[Douglas Gregor]

On Jul 26, 2012, at 10:23 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:

> While reading the "How To Setup Clang Tooling for LLVM" documentation
> ( http://clang.llvm.org/docs/HowToSetupToolingForLLVM.html ) I ran
> into a snag where the document implied that clang-check would be
> installed alongside clang. This is currently not the case - we don't
> install clang-check, at least not in the cmake build (&, given the
> presence of "NO_INSTALL = 1" in the Makefile, I assume we don't in the
> make build either).
> 
> Should we? It seems like a natural enough thing to install, though I
> realize the specifics of which tools will be developed where and how
> they'll be installed is still in flux, so I figured I'd start a thread
> to discuss this rather than just committing it.
> 
> [as a side note: why do we install diagtool (perhaps there's some use
> for it other than the internal diagnostic flag regression testing?)
> and c-index-test (by name I would've thought that was just an internal
> test binary)]
> <clang_check_install.diff>


It depends on whether we think the installation is for end-users of Clang or for developers who want to work on Clang or Clang-based tools. I tend to think that we should favor for former, and only install the base compiler (clang, clang++, support headers and support libraries). If we want to have a "developer mode" that installs everything else, that's fine.

	- Doug