[LLVMdev] Compiling llvm and Clang in solaris 10

[Jorge Rodrigues]

Hope you get the legal approvals,

until then I will wait.

--Jorge


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Stefan Teleman
<stefan.teleman at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Jorge Rodrigues <skeept at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Is there anything I can do regarding the linker issue? The solaris
> linker is
> > in /usr/ccs/bin/ld but I think llvm wants to use the gnu linker. gcc in
> my
> > system was compiled with the solaris linker.
>
> The current Solaris implementation in
> ${top}/tools/clang/lib/Driver/Tools.cpp has all the GCC and
> linker-related machinery hardcoded.
>
> I have a number of patches for Solaris which would make all the linker
> stuff work much better (and would give one the option to choose
> between different linkers at link time) but I haven't gotten the green
> light from Oracle to make these patches public yet - i'm waiting on
> the internal approval chain to complete.
>
> We *really* want to contribute Solaris support (Intel and SPARC) to
> clang/llvm, and these legal approvals are not only required, but also
> in everyone's best interests (not just our own).
>
> i'm waiting for legal approvals at this point, and i don't have a
> better solution handy at the moment. The only thing i can offer is
> "stay tuned, we're working on it". :-)
>
> --Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Teleman
> KDE e.V.
> stefan.teleman at gmail.com
>
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