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

[Chris Lattner]

On Jul 16, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:

> 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?

Done: tools/gold-plugin.

-Chris