[cfe-commits] [patch] installing clang-check as part of clang

[David Blaikie]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 26, 2012, at 10:23 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> While reading the "How To Setup Clang Tooling for LLVM" documentation
>>>> ( http://clang.llvm.org/docs/HowToSetupToolingForLLVM.html ) I ran
>>>> into a snag where the document implied that clang-check would be
>>>> installed alongside clang. This is currently not the case - we don't
>>>> install clang-check, at least not in the cmake build (&, given the
>>>> presence of "NO_INSTALL = 1" in the Makefile, I assume we don't in the
>>>> make build either).
>>>>
>>>> Should we? It seems like a natural enough thing to install, though I
>>>> realize the specifics of which tools will be developed where and how
>>>> they'll be installed is still in flux, so I figured I'd start a thread
>>>> to discuss this rather than just committing it.
>>>>
>>>> [as a side note: why do we install diagtool (perhaps there's some use
>>>> for it other than the internal diagnostic flag regression testing?)
>>>> and c-index-test (by name I would've thought that was just an internal
>>>> test binary)]
>>>> <clang_check_install.diff>
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>>> It depends on whether we think the installation is for end-users of Clang or for developers who want to work on Clang or Clang-based tools. I tend to think that we should favor for former, and only install the base compiler (clang, clang++, support headers and support libraries). If we want to have a "developer mode" that installs everything else, that's fine.
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>> Especially with the vim integration, the use case of clang-check I see
>> is much more for clang-users (-> compiling their random open source
>> project with clang) than for clang devs. Of course we're not yet at
>> the integration level we want to be at for editors; which I can see as
>> an objection to default-installing it in its current state.
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> That's a good point; clang-check is (will be) important for users.
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> diagtool, though, isn't something users should ever need. If a user needs to explore warnings and flags, they should be able to look at some documentation. Installing diagtool doesn't get us out of writing documentation :)

So - stop installing diagtool and c-index-test and start installing clang-check?