[LLVMdev] gold plugin use

[Swarup Kumar Sahoo]

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>>   
>I don't believe that llvm-gcc is used to execute the ar command.  Having 
>read everyone's input, I believe the problem stems from the fact that 
>your llvmGold.so is not in a directory in which ar searches for plugins 
>by default, *and* the Makefiles aren't passing the --plugin option to 
>ar, so ar never loads llvmGold.so and cannot link LLVM bitcode files.
>
>The solution is to either convince the software's build system to run ar 
>with the --plugin option (you can set the AR environment variable before 
>running configure to do this) or place llvmGold.so in the bfd-plugins 
>directory as Rafael suggests (which will cause ar to load it whenever it 
>is run).

ok, now it works when I manually created the bfd-plugins  directory and put the plugin there. I think, we can change the documentation to make this clear.

Thanks,
Swarup.

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Swarup Kumar Sahoo
Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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