[LLVMdev] LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH

[John T. Criswell]

Chris Lattner wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Jeff Cohen wrote:
>
>>> I definitely prefer #1.  The only concern I have with it is that 
>>> this makes it impossible to move the llvmgcc install directory once 
>>> it is built (tools would not look in the correct directories).
>>>
>> This is a very big concern.  Users of LLVM generally do not build 
>> llvmgcc -- are actively discouraged from building it -- and therefore 
>> would have no option as to where it must be installed on their system.
>
>
> That is an excellent point, one which I had not fully considered.
>
> One way to deal with this (properly even), would be to have the 'gcc' 
> compiler driver pass in a -L option that indicates the location of the 
> bytecode-libs directory.  It already passes in -L options for 
> "lib/gcc/<target>/3.4-llvm/" and others, so this should be pretty easy.

I agree that this is the right way to go; it's been on my mind for some 
time, but I've never explored the possibility.

I think LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH should still exist, sort of as a parallell 
to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, but the compiler driver should be able to pass the 
-L option to gccld/llvm-ld/whatever to include the compiler runtime 
libraries.

Speaking of which, is there a reason not to install the libraries inside 
of LLVMGCCDIR/lib?  That's where libstdc++ lives, and it's already in 
the llvm-gcc's search path?

-- John T.

>
> -Chris
>