[LLVMdev] Windows development and "virus" in LLVM test suite

[Mikael Lyngvig]

Solution found (instruct the user to add an ignore directory to his or her
antivirus solution).  It works too :-)  And Windows users ought to suffer a
little bit for having chosen that platform ;-)

And me who couldn't for the life of me figure out why the heck a compiler
needed to include an antivirus testcase.  Well, there are greater wonders
under the sky than anyone can ever imagine.

2012/6/15 Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org>wrote:
>
>> 1. I can't tell Microsoft Security Essentials to ignore anything.  Even
>> if I click Allow, it breaks the pull.
>> 2. The issue is not me.  I don't download virus infested stuff and I
>> don't visit dangerous sites so I rarely have a need for antivirus solutions.
>>
>> The issue is the newcomer Windows user whom I have to instruct to disable
>> and/or remove his antivirus program if he or she wants to set up a Windows
>> buildbot slave.  A bit drastic, but that's life as it is now.
>>
>
> At a fundamental level, I don't see easy ways to fix this.
>
> A major user of LLVM is an anti-virus software suite.
>
> A reasonable test case for them is to detect, well, a virus.
>
> A reasonable use of the test suite (which note is *not* part of the
> primary LLVM repository!) is to include tests that are a bit tricky to
> include with LLVM by default either because they take too long to run, have
> too many host dependencies, have weird license restrictions, etc etc.
>
> It's not clear to me that making this optional test suite easier to
> install on restrictive platforms like Windows with this security software
> you mention is worth neutering the ClamAV tests run...
>
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