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

Douglas Gregor dgregor at apple.com
Fri Nov 30 14:06:16 PST 2012


On Nov 30, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Rafael EspĂ­ndola <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.

	- Doug



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