[PATCH] D34197: Added Dockerfiles to build clang from sources.

[Mehdi AMINI via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

mehdi_amini added inline comments.


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Comment at: docs/Docker.rst:109
+(``llvm/utils/build_clang_image.sh``) that handles that. It has less parameters
+and be used like that:
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mehdi_amini wrote:
> ilya-biryukov wrote:
> > mehdi_amini wrote:
> > > It is very confusing why we need three scripts. I especially don't understand the introduction of the build_clang_image.sh script here.
> > > Can we just get rid of this third script that (after looking at the code) is a thing wrapper and just give the example invocation of the build_docker_image.sh that does that?
> > It is indeed just a thin wrapper with a sole purpose of including a proper "recipe" to do a 2-stage clang build.
> > Is there any harm in including it? It's a very small and simple script. Do you find it confusing to have it beside the main script to build docker images?
> > 
> Adding 90 lines of script for something that is 3 lines of documentation that the user should copy/paste? Doesn't justify itself to me.
> 
> 
Also, as mentioned in a previous review: we don't have a script that is "build clang" today (other than the release script. This is an orthogonal concern to Docker so I'm against tying it to Docker here.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D34197