[LLVMdev] llvm cvs/svn installscript

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Fredrik Svensson wrote:
> By reading the homepage I figured that llvm-gcc4 seemed
> the best way to go.
> I tried to follow the homepage and the instructions in README.LLVM
> Sometimes confusing but in retrospect not that hard.
>
> But I could not produce the .bc file with a simple program
> no matter how hard I tried.
>
> After some help from resistor in #llvm it became clear that I did not know
> about -emit-llvm. Thank you resistor.

BTW, I updated the example in the getting started guide to be accurate for 
llvm-gcc4 as well as llvm-gcc3.  Thanks for pointing out the problem.

-Chris

> Before finding this out I created an install script to make sure I had made
> every step, so I could ask the list if the steps were correct.
>
> Now I have found my problem but maybe the script can be useful for someone
> else, or even included in the documentation.
>
> The script installs llvm in a given directory (default LLVM=/tmp/llvm)
> using the latest cvs/svn sources.
> It is a simple bash script so it should not be hard to follow.
> *Please Note* that rm -rf $LLVM is used in the script. That is the reason I
> use /tmp/llvm as default dir in the script I send to the list.
>
> Please note that about 879 Mb of free space is needed to build llvm with
> llvm-gcc4 frontend.
>
> $ du -hs *
> 124M    build
> 30M     install
> 173M    llvm
> 554M    llvm-gcc4
> 20K     test
>
> The script have only been tested on a Debian sid machine using default gcc :
> gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20060729 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-10)
>
> Hope it helps someone..
>
> /Fred
>

-Chris

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