[PATCH] D37240: Fix crbug 759265 by suppressing llvm mt warnings.

[Eric Beckmann via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

ecbeckmann added inline comments.


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Comment at: lld/COFF/DriverUtils.cpp:431
+  std::string Msg = toString(InternalOutputBufferOrError.takeError());
+  if (Msg != "no libxml2")
+    fatal("error with internal manifest tool:" + Msg);
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hans wrote:
> I suppose this will solve the immediate problem, but it still looks a bit strange.
> 
> I'm not very familiar with this code, but don't we know beforehand if the internal mt tool is available and expected to work?
> 
> As Rui pointed out, why can't we just do:
> 
> ```
> If the internal mt is present:
>   If merge fails for some reason:
>     Report that error and abort
> Otherwise:
>   Invoke external mt command, and if it fails, abort
> ```
The only way we can tell if it will work is if we see if libxml2 is enabled, but as I said before that is an implementation detail internal to the library that users should not need to know about.  I suppose we can add a cmake variable that has the same value as the libxml2 flag.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D37240