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

[Vedant Kumar via cfe-dev]

> On May 15, 2018, at 7:40 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A new one was just added recently - Clang's diagtool. So if you're looking at how to reduce install size, might want to double check that the motivation for adding that is consistent with/not contradictory with your goals/motivations for removing these.

Yep, the motivation for including clang's diagtool seemed sound to me (i.e I can imagine diagtool being useful to a wide audience).

Actually, that change is what motivated me to take a closer look at what exactly makes it into our installs.

> 
> (also since several of these are clang binaries/tools - maybe check with the cfe-dev list too)

+ cfe-dev

vedant

> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 2:27 PM Vedant Kumar via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto: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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