[LLVMdev] LLVM Build Problems on Itanium

[Dale Johannesen]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Thomas Jablin wrote:

> Dale Johannesen wrote:
>>
>> That's an LLVM bug.  Inline assembly is known to have some problems.
>> I'm not sure how robust the ia64 implementation is.
>>
>> Configuring with
>> BOOTSTRAP=
>> should stop it from trying to bootstrap.

Actually it's --disable-bootstrap on the FSF-style configure, sorry.

>> However, it's still likely
>> to try to build the file that's causing trouble.
>>
> Is there any reason why I can't use xgcc to generate LLVM bitcodes?  
> What
> are the limitations of xgcc relative to gcc?
> Tom

That will work, as long as you don't try to use it to link.  Its  
header file search
paths will be different from the installed gcc.