[LLVMdev] [RFC] Install yaml2obj and obj2yaml utilities together with other LLVM tools

[Simon Atanasyan]

Let's suppose that MCLinker folks are here already - I am a committer
of this project :).

Maybe I did not formulate my suggestion correctly. When I offer to
"install" the yaml2obj and obj2yaml utilities I mean result of the
"make install" command only. I do not suggest to include this
utilities into any distributed binary packages. To be clear I attached
the patch with suggested changes.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that installing these tools and having them used by third-party
> projects are separate questions.
>
> AFAIK, currently these tools are considered purely internal testing tools,
> so we don't want external projects relying on them. Anyway, I personally
> can't think of any project other than MCLinker for which it would make sense
> to depend on these tools, so better to just have the MCLinker folks get
> involved upstream.
>
> As to installing the tools, I'm sure that many of the tools that get
> installed currently are testing tools as well, so I don't see the harm of
> installing these tools (besides possibly bloating packages, which should
> probably be evaluated). Personally I don't think these tools are very useful
> outside of their testing role so I wouldn't bother installing them.
>
> -- Sean Silva
>
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Simon Atanasyan <simon at atanasyan.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Now the yaml2obj and obj2yaml utilities used in LLVM and LLD projects
>> tests only and not installed by the "make install" command. I think
>> they might be also useful in third-party projects like MCLinker. I
>> suggest to move these utilities into the "tools" category and install
>> them together with other LLVM tools.
>>
>> Any objections or comments?

-- 
Simon Atanasyan
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