[LLVMdev] CVS binutils includes support for plugins, can use the llvm plugin.

[Daniel Dunbar]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:38 AM, Rafael Espindola<espindola at google.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/12 Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org>:
>> Will ar, etc. eventually get some autodiscovery of plugins so that
>> things work OOTB after a make install of llvm/llvm-gcc?
>
> The bfd library (used by ar and nm) already searches for plugins in
> $install_dir/lib/bfd-plugins/. Maybe we could pass an option to llvm's
> configure to tell it where to install a copy of the plugin?

Ah, cool. I think we will need a little extra magic in the Makefiles
for this too but should be pretty straightforward. I filed PR4564, I
may do this at some point if no one beats me to it.

Chris, can you add a gold-plugin component to bugzilla?

 - Daniel

>>  - Daniel
>>
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