[LLVMdev] llvm-link Patch

[Gregory Malecha]

If this is the case, is there ever a reason to use llvm-link as opposed to
llvm-ld?

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Eli Friedman <eli.friedman at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:
> > Hi Rafael,
> >
> >>> I'm working on a project that involves archive files and since
> llvm-link
> >>> does not currently support them, I have a simple patch (attached) to
> add
> >>> this functionality. It isn't really efficient (it recomputes the set of
> >>> symbols that need to be linked in after each link), and it probably has
> >>> some problems with append linkage, but so far it has been enough for
> me.
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to clean this up and commit it back to llvm. Would someone
> like
> >>> to tell me how to proceed?
> >>
> >> llvm-link is a very simple developer's tool.
> >
> > I don't see why it shouldn't support LLVM archives though.
>
> llvm-link-which-supports-archives is called "llvm-ld -link-as-library".
>
> -Eli
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