[cfe-dev] Clang as a compiler-only tool

[Jordan Rose]

On Dec 3, 2012, at 5:53 , Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:06:16PM -0800, Douglas Gregor wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 30, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Rafael Esp?ndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> This is a poor solution to a general problem, and it's not even a solution that anyone outside of FreeBSD's build system can utility. As this patch stands, it doesn't belong in the main Clang repository.
>>> 
>>> Would you be ok with it if CLANG_IS_COMPILER_ONLY is plugged to
>>> configure and cmake?
>> 
>> 
>> That's going in the right direction, but CLANG_IS_COMPILER_ONLY still feels like a misnomer. I'd much rather have CLANG_BUILD_STATIC_ANALYZER and CLANG_BUILD_ARC_MIGRATOR, with independent build settings in configure and CMake. It's at least a step toward the right general solution.
> 
> Two patches attaches - one for clang that splits CLANG_IS_COMPILER_ONLY to
> CLANG_DISABLE_REWRITER, CLANG_DISABLE_ARCMT and CLANG_DISABLE_STATIC_ANALYZER.
> 
> And one for llvm that attempts to introduce --disable-clang-arcmt,
> --disable-clang-rewriter and --disable-clang-static-analyzer to llvm
> configure.
> 
> I only need the clang part to be committed but I tried to provide
> autoconf part too.

Where is the part that actually disables the building/linking of these libraries? This is useless without that.

Also, I understand if you don't want to do the CMake legwork for now, but eventually someone should.

Jordan