[LLVMdev] IMPORTANT: llvm-ar requirements

[Reid Spencer]

I forgot to mention ..

This is a temporary requirement.  I am working on changes so that an
archive file that doesn't have a symbol table can be linked
successfully, albeit a LOT slower.

Reid.

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 15:41, Reid Spencer wrote:
> Ignore this at your own peril.
> 
> I have committed changes to CVS that introduce a fully functional
> llvm-ar tool, and a new lib/Linker library that uses the archive's
> symbol table to hasten linking. However, this implies that archives read
> by the LLVM tools *must* have an LLVM symbol table in them. This happens
> automatically for the crtend.a library, but not for the runtime
> libraries produced by the C/C++ Front End. In order to get your programs
> to link again, you *must* do the following *after* rebuilding with the
> latest CVS sources:
> 
> cd $CFEINSTALL
> cd lib
> llvm-ranlib libiberty.a
> llvm-ranlib libstdc++.a
> llvm-ranlib libsupc++.a
> llvm-ranlib gcc/*/*/libgcc.a
> llvm-ranlib gcc/*/*/libgcov.a
> 
> This will ensure that the archives built by CFE will have LLVM style
> bytecode symbol tables in them.
> 
> Reid.
> 
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