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

[Joshua Cranmer]

On 6/15/2012 8:12 PM, Mikael Lyngvig wrote:
>
>     Not having an AV or swithching it off at times is not a sign of
>     stupidity. The best antivirus is a mindful, knowledgeable user.
>     And the
>     antivirus doesn't really protect you in case of risky behavior.
>
>
> I couldn't have said it better myself.  I've had three viruses in 29 
> years and only one of them was my own fault. I've spent hours trying 
> to explain people that trusting an antivirus solution is unfortunate 
> at best.
>
>     Yes, if the antivirus accepts an exception for a yet nonexistent
>     file. I
>     bet most of them won't do that without fiddling with configuration
>     files.
>
>
> Ok.  You get it your way :-)  Disable antivirus, checkout, and then 
> add the offending file to the exclusion list.

A better rule of thumb I would say is to exclude the entire source and 
build directories from antivirus. On-access file scan hurts build times 
a fair amount, and I really doubt that any of your source code is going 
to have viruses in them :-P

-- 
Joshua Cranmer
News submodule owner
DXR coauthor

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20120615/028634ba/attachment.html>