[LLVMdev] Circular dependencies

[Reid Spencer]

Okay, the problem with this cycle is LoopSimplify. It is using
AliasAnalysis which is where that _ZN4llvm11BasicAAStubEv symbol is
coming from.  It seems to me that LoopSimplify.cpp is in the wrong
place.  This file defines the LoopSimplify FunctionPass which doesn't
seem to me to be a "transform util". I thought the purpose of
"Transforms/Util" was to provide utilities that are common amongst
transforms. But, LoopSimplyf *is* a transform. So, I think the solution
is to move LoopSimplify.cpp out of Transforms/Utils to somewhere else,
say just "Transforms. By doing this, we probably eliminate the cycle.
I'm going to validate that shortly.

Reid.

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 09:26 -0500, Eric Kidd wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
> >>>    LLVMCodeGen.o LLVMSelectionDAG.o libLLVMAnalysis.a  
> >>> libLLVMTarget.a
> >>>    libLLVMTransformUtils.a libLLVMipa.a
> >
> > CodeGen should depend on Target, but not the other way around.
> > LLVMIPA should depend on LLVMAnalysis, but certainly nothing in the  
> > list should depend on LLVMIPA.  If you knew what was pulling in IPA  
> > that would probably be an easy tie to sever.
> >
> > Ideally, none of the above should depend on libLLVMTransformUtils.
> 
> Yeah, I'm definitely having headaches with LLVMTransformUtils, which  
> needs to appear before  LLVMAnalysis and lLLVMTarget.
> 
>    -lLLVMTransformUtils -lLLVMAnalysis -lLLVMTarget
> 
> If I don't do this, I get link errors on:
> 
>    __ZN4llvm11BasicAAStubEv
> 
> I think, for now, the only portable workaround is for me to link all  
> the *.a libraries in that loop twice, and hope we can clean up the  
> dependencies later.
> 
> There's several places where llvm-config could be simplified quite a  
> bit if we broke the unnecessary dependencies and merged the remaining  
> loops into single *.a files. In some sense, parts of llvm-config are  
> re-inventing the system linker. Depending on your point of view, this  
> might be a bad thing. :-)
> 
> Many thanks to everyone who's helped sort this out!
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
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