[LLVMdev] 2.5 Pre-release1 available for testing

[Neal Becker]

Michel Salim wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Tanya Lattner <tonic at nondot.org> wrote:
>> LLVMers,
>>
>> The 2.5 pre-release is available for testing:
>> http://llvm.org/prereleases/2.5/
>>
> I'm updating the Fedora packaging of LLVM, and with the 02/20
> prerelease it fails to build on ppc64:
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1148023
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/llvm-2.5/lib/VMCore'
> llvm[1]: Building Intrinsics.gen.tmp from Intrinsics.td
> tblgen: IntrinsicEmitter.cpp:137: void
> EmitTypeForValueType(std::ostream&, llvm::MVT::SimpleValueType):
> Assertion `false && "Unsupported ValueType!"' failed.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/builddir/build/BUILD/llvm-2.5/lib/VMCore'
> make[1]: ***
> [/builddir/build/BUILD/llvm-2.5/lib/VMCore/Release/Intrinsics.gen.tmp]
> Aborted make: *** [all] Error 1
> 
> The compiler flags used are in the build log as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
I'm very interested in trying out your package.  I'm running on F10 x86_64.

Do you know if llvm is capable of generating shared libs on this arch yet?  
Last I tried, it required a static linked runtime lib, and on x86_64 you 
can't link your .so against a static (non-pic) lib.