[LLVMdev] Bugs in Getting Started Guide

[Ted Neward]

If you're asking that question of me, then yes! :-)

In fact, if you send me the draft, I'll test it out under the normal
circumstances (Windows XP, nothing LLVM-ish installed) to betatest/QA it.

Ted Neward
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:llvmdev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu]
> On Behalf Of Holger Schurig
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:47 PM
> To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Bugs in Getting Started Guide
> 
> On Thursday 27 September 2007 22:51, Tanya M. Lattner wrote:
> > The getting started quickly instructions say that you "cd
> > where-you-want-the-C-front-end-to-live" and the unzip the
> > front-end, followed by "cd where-you-want-llvm-to-live".
> 
> Maybe this adds to the confusion: that he has to make decisions
> ("Where do I want the c-front end to live?") --- and at the same
> time the new user is, ahem, 'new', so he can't see the
> implications of such a decision.
> 
> Maybe a cook-book-receive would be more helpful. Don't present
> options to the user, but give him a 'quick' result to work with.
> 
> $ wget http://this-file
> $ wget http://that-file
> $ tar xzf this-file
> $ cd blah
> $ tar xjf ../that-file
> $ cd ..
> $ ./configure --prefix=`pwd`/dist --some-more-options
> $ make
> $ PATH=dist/bin:$PATH
> $ # now you can use llvm-gcc etc
> 
> Do you want me to work out such a thing?
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