[PATCH] D34197: Added Dockerfiles to build clang from sources.

Manuel Klimek via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Jul 5 00:32:50 PDT 2017


klimek added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34197#799062, @mehdi_amini wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34197#798738, @klimek wrote:
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> > In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34197#795442, @mehdi_amini wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks! LGTM.
> > >
> > > I'll be happy to iterate separately on providing an easy way to build a boostrap of clang (that would be easy to use with or without Docker)!
> >
> >
> > As a data point - I just tried to build the docker image and without Ilya's help I wouldn't have known to look at the docs (usually docker build envs for projects just work out of the box to give me a full image; I don't know whether you have a different experience). We'll improve comments on the script itself, but as a user I'd really like to have something that I can run that will Just Work :)
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> I don't disagree that having something that "just works" would be nice. However you have to take into account that LLVM is a very complex project and there is not a "single image" that can fit all.
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> If we start with an "easy to build" full image, it should be the same as the official packages: http://releases.llvm.org ; this is *not* what was proposed here.


I don't understand yet why would we need something that is the same as the official packages. I'd expect more something like an experience a distro would give you.


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