[LLVMdev] Disabling rtti on default build - could it be reverted/re-enabled?

[Nick Lewycky]

Pekka Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Jeffrey Yasskin wrote:
>> I've put together http://llvm.org/docs/Packaging.html to document
>> these kinds of requests for all packagers in one place. Let me know if
>> any of the advice I've put there is wrong. (At the moment,
>
> Looks good to me. BTW exception support for LLVM is not required
> to link with code that uses exceptions. At least our toolset
> seems to link fine with LLVM without this flag given for make and
> it uses exceptions all over the place. So probably it's not required
> to be on for the binary packages either (not sure about this).

The reason we can't turn RTTI off for VMCore right now is that it breaks 
the build on Mac of tools/bugpoint which uses RTTI (because it uses 
exceptions). Your ABI may vary.

Nick

> About --enable-shared. Could it be a good compromise to allow to
> link the LLVM tools statically (for the startup speedup) but still
> generate also a shared lib for external projects to more easily link
> with? So, by default always (additionally to the static lib) generate
> the big .so but only when --link-llvm-with-shared (or similar)
> is given it would link the LLVM binaries with it?
>