[lldb-dev] Editline Rewrite : issues surround wide character handling on different platforms

[Matthew Gardiner]

On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 23:40 -0700, Enrico Granata wrote:
> With that said, building LLDB requires building LLVM and clang as prerequisites.
> So there definitely is a clang available if LLDB is being built.
> I wonder if one could setup things to bootstrap a clang with gcc, and then rebuild the entire LLVM, clang, lldb toolset with that built clang.
> 

Yes, of course that's possible. But I'd argue that just makes things
more complex, and less attractive for newcomers to the project.

Incidentally, why does lldb require clang to be built as a prerequisite?
Given that I can use it to debug a linux binary built with gcc, why do I
need to build another compiler along the way?

Matt 





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