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I'm trying to get LLVM1.9 working on my Ubuntu 6.10 system. The LLVM version in the repositories is 1.7 and I've never managed to get it successfully working because whoever packaged it thought it would be fun to rename everything. This means I can't use it to build 1.9 and I've therefore decided to try bootstrapping a 1.9 build.<BR>
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Yes, I've looked at the docs where it said this isn't for the faint of heart. Unfortunately the binary builds provided (RC5 and RHEL4) simply don't work for me -- they're asking for .so files that don't exist anywhere on my system, nor within their tarballs. (libelf.so.1 for starters) So I've had to crack open the books and try a bootstrap build.<BR>
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The build instructions provided tell me to build llvm-gcc first from the source. The source for that tells me to build llvm first from the source. I'm not sure where to go from this point. I have two dependencies whose documentation each points firmly at the other as the first step to build. I've tried it both ways and been burned by error messages about missing or dysfunctional pieces.<BR>
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What's the next step? How do I actually do a bootstrap?<BR>
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<B>Michael T. Richter</B><BR>
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