[LLVMdev] Adding sub-commands and option classes to the command line library.

[Rafael Espíndola]

On 23 October 2011 03:27, Michael Spencer <bigcheesegs at gmail.com> wrote:
> There was discussion on IRC about merging all of the compiler hacker
> tools (llvm-as, bugpoint, llc, lli, etc...) into a single llvm
> megatool. This tool would work similar to how most version control cli
> programs work. One would call 'llvm as bitcode.ll' instead of 'llvm-as
> bitcode.ll'. The main reason for this is to improve link time, but it
> also reduces the total file size (especially in the case of static
> linking), and makes it easier to discover the tools available.
>

One advantage of the current system (specially when building with cmake)
is that we have explicit list of dependencies and tools that use only a subset
of it. For example, that is what recently found a problem with the IL parser
depending on codegen.

I agree with Tobias that having better support for shared libraries is probably
a better solution for incremental builds.

Cheers,
Rafael