[LLVMdev] make-test dependencies on local directory

[Aaron Gray]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 7:15 PM, John Criswell <criswell at cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Dale Johannesen wrote:
> > On Feb 23, 2009, at 10:30 AMPST, Aaron Gray wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Aaron Gray <
> aaronngray.lists at googlemail.com<mailto:aaronngray.lists at googlemail.com>>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple.com
> <mailto:dalej at apple.com>> wrote:
> > These benchmarks are not distributed with llvm (which doesn't have the
> > legal right to distribute Spec, for example).  If you have them from
> > another source, you need to configure --with-externals=<path>
> >
> > Okay, thanks. Thre should be better warning/error reporting though.
> >
> > And Vikram Adve's home directory should not really be compiled into a
> release.
> >
> Actually, that's not Vikram's home directory.  It's a directory that
> belongs to Vikram's research group.  Files were historically categorized
> by professor back when LLVM was first released.
>
> When deciding upon a default setting for the location of external
> benchmarks, we couldn't really think up of one since there's no standard
> place where they should be .  Therefore, we decided to set the default
> to a location that would be convenient for our research group.  :)
>
> I think the only other default that makes sense is to have it default to
> ${LLVM_SRC_ROOT}/External or ${HOME}/External or something like that.
> That's less convenient for us at Illinois and probably not much more
> convenient for anybody else, but it is more intuitive.
>
> I don't feel strongly about it either way; I just wanted to let you know
> that there was a method behind the madness.
> :)


Thanks John.

Aaron
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