[LLVMdev] Compiling glibc on Linux

[Chris Lattner]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, Babak Salamat wrote:
> Yes, I have built and installed llvm-gcc and "llvm-gcc --print-prog-
> name=cc1" return the correct path for cc1, so I assume its path is
> set correctly in the config files, but I haven't installed config
> files separately. Do I need to do that? Is there any documentation
> about it?

I'd strongly suggest just building with CC=llvm-gcc CXX=llvm-g++.

llvmc is extremely experimental and has not seen wide use.

-Chris

> On May 8, 2007, at 7:33 PM, Reid Spencer wrote:
>
>> Babak,
>>
>> As its manual page (http://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/html/llvmc.html)
>> states, llvmc is an experimental tool:
>>
>> llvmc is considered an experimental LLVM tool because it has these
>> deficiencies:
>>
>> Poor configuration support
>>         The support for configuring new languages, etc. is weak. There
>>         are many command line configurations that cannot be achieved
>>         with the current support. Furthermore the grammar is
>> cumbersome
>>         for configuration files. Please see http://llvm.org/PR686 for
>>         further details.
>>
>> That said, you should be able to get it to work with llvm-gcc.
>>
>> Did you build llvm-gcc? Did you check the paths in the "c" config
>> file?
>> Did you install the config files?
>>
>> All of these things need to be done in order for the standard config
>> file to work.
>>
>> Reid.
>>
>> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:40 -0700, Babak Salamat wrote:
>>>   Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to compile glibc on Linux using llvm. I need to do this
>>> for a research project.
>>> The problem is that llvmc doesn't work, and I guess I have to set
>>> CC=llvmc to get the glic compiled. For some reason llvmc complains
>>> that it cannot find %llvmcc1%. I have this problem both on my Mac and
>>> my Linux system. Other tools that I have tested including llvm-gcc
>>> work without any problem.
>>> First, I appreciate it if you let me know what can cause this problem
>>> and second, tell me if you think I have any chance to compile glibc
>>> using LLVM.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Babak
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Babak Salamat
>>> PhD Student
>>> Department of Computer Science
>>> School of Information and Computer Sciences
>>> University of California, Irvine
>>> email: bsalamat at uci.edu
>>> web: www.ics.uci.edu/~bsalamat
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-Chris

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