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

[Mikael Lyngvig]

A solution was found and that's all I care about.  Thank you, gentlemen,
for your time and for helping to resolve this issue.  Which will make it
into the Windows docs so that we won't ever see the issue raised again.

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

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Mikael Lyngvig <mikael at lyngvig.org>wrote:
>
>> Sounds like a great idea.  On Windows there are so many types of
>> antivirus solutions, that it is impossible to provide a detailed
>> description of how to add an ignored folder for all of them.
>
>
> No, it's not a great idea. These are exactly the types of things virus
> *already do* to get by detection systems. They will be defeated by some
> extra clever anti virus software.
>
> Look, let's not try to hack around this. Let's just admit it. There is a
> virus inside of a virus scanner's test suite. That's OK.
>
> This test suite is not required to hack on Clang or LLVM, so I think its
> fine as is.
>
> If people are seriously peeved, we could split the test suite in two, but
> honestly this is the first time it has ever come up, so I suspect the cost
> of dealing with this file is lower than the cost of dealing with this email
> thread. ;]
>
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