[llvm-dev] Removing LLVM testing tools from the install distribution

[David Jones via llvm-dev]

Please keep llvm-symbolizer in the install distribution.

If a user's program crashes then I like to print out a backtrace with file
name/line number if compiled with debug. Forking off llvm-symbolizer is the
easiest way for me to obtain the debug information.

Thanks.


On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Vedant Kumar via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Should the binaries included in an LLVM release be generally useful to a
> wide audience of toolchain users, or is it OK to ship tools that are only
> really useful for LLVM development?
>
> If the former is the case, can we consider not shipping tools which are
> exclusively for testing the compiler? E.g removing these 5 binaries from
> 5.0.2-rc1 would have saved over a hundred megabytes in uncompressed space
> for macOS users:
>
> Binary name | Size in megabytes
> --------------------------------------------
> clang-check: 54.6725
> llvm-c-test: 33.8384
> clang-import-test: 20.6708
> c-index-test: 19.8632
> verify-uselistorder: 2.84348
>
> vedant
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