[LLVMdev] Building LLVM 2.5 on CENTOS 5.3

[Dale Johannesen]

On Apr 28, 2009, at 3:45 PMPDT, Sarah Thompson wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm having some difficulties getting LLVM to build and work correctly
> on CENTOS 5.3. This is basically tracked down easily enough to CENTOS
> using GCC 4.1.x by default, which is known-buggy and known not to work
> with LLVM -- I was getting the well-known problem with aborts due to a
> non-empty symbol table. I have installed the gcc43 package via yum
> (I'm trying to stick to known packages because I need to roll this out
> at some point), which installs a gcc43 executable. Is there any
> configure magic available that will make it possible to get the LLVM
> build system to pick up gcc43 rather than the default gcc? Symlinking
> it didn't work, because I suspect it was still picking up the old
> libraries and headers. This is preferable to requiring users to
> significantly hack their environment.

I haven't tried it, but comments in 'configure' suggest the CC and CXX  
environment variables should work.