[LLVMdev] cvs opt broken?

[Reid Spencer]

On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 01:27 -0500, Ryan M. Lefever wrote:
> PR1317 says that it is resolved.  Looking at the details of the report, 
> it says that a fix had been committed for the "instant case."  Am I 
> right that means a fix has been submitted that makes LLVMHello work with 
> opt, but that the general problem has not been resolved and is reported 
> in PR1318?

Yes, that's pretty much it. 1317 was about LLVMHello. 1318 is a more
substantial bug that has not been resolved yet.  I mentioned both
because perhaps the fix for LLVMHello (don't link LLVM libraries into
the module) will work for you as well.

Reid.

> 
> 
> Reid Spencer wrote:
> > Hi Ryan,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 00:12 -0500, Ryan M. Lefever wrote:
> > 
> >>I checked out llvm from cvs & llvm-gcc from svn last night and again 
> >>tonight.  Each time they compiled and installed fine.  After installing 
> >>them, I recompiled compiler transforms I had written for opt.  opt seems 
> >>to load the my transform libraries fine, but it complains:
> >>
> >>opt: Unknown command line argument '-mytransform'
> > 
> > 
> >>whenever I try to specify one of my transforms on the opt command line. 
> > 
> > 
> > Please see PR1317 and PR1318. I believe you're running into the same
> > issue. Briefly, the issue is that option processing has changed to not
> > be so oriented towards static initialization time. This has changed the
> > order of things and now your option is not recognized because it hasn't
> > been registered properly.
> > 
> > 
> >>  I checked the names of the transforms and they are correct.  In 
> >>addition, I did a opt --help and my transforms were lisetd.
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, this isn't your bug.
> > 
> > 
> >>So, I switched back to a version of llvm & llvm-gcc from about a month 
> >>ago, and opt recognizes and runs my transforms.  Did something change 
> >>with opt?  
> > 
> > 
> > These are probably the result of changes to the CommandLine.cpp file in
> > the last few days. All LLVM tools use a common facility for processing
> > command line options. 
> > 
> > 
> >>Did something change with the way transforms are registered 
> >>with opt?
> > 
> > 
> > No, the registration mechanism is the same.
> > 
> > Reid.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >>Regards,
> >>Ryan
> >>
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