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

[Sean Silva]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Simon Atanasyan <simon at atanasyan.com>
wrote:

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

Doesn't seem like a problem then.


>
> 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.
>

I don't think that patch would hurt. I'd like a second opinion from Rafael
though.

-- Sean Silva


>
> 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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