[LLVMdev] Multiple directories in a single library

[Matthijs Kooijman]

Hi Anton,

> The main reason of such split was codesize concerns for JIT users:
> they don't need asmprinting at all. The ugly include paths hacks were
> due to current lack of possibility to "export private headers".
Ah, I suspected as much.

> > Anyway, I thought it would be good if one could simply compile .cpp files in
> > subdirectories as if they are in the current directory, without a makefile in
> > the subdirectory. These cpp files would end up in the library as defined by
> > the parent directory's Makefile.
> Then, this again "merges" asmprinters into whole target library, right?
If you would use the EXTRA_SOURCES for the AsmPrinter dir, then yes. But there
is nothing to stop you from keeping AsmPrinter in DIRS with its own makefile,
and putting other dirs in EXTRA_SOURCES.

Gr.

Matthijs
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