[LLVMdev] using just llvm/clang for building mips llvm

[reed kotler]

And of course thanks to Akira Hatanaka for making the mips 32 code 
generator solid enough for all of this to work.

On 03/27/2014 03:23 PM, Reid Kleckner wrote:
> Congrats!
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 2:17 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com 
> <mailto:rkotler at mips.com>> wrote:
>
>     In case anyone is interested....
>
>     We don't need to compile llvm/clang using gcc anymore for the
>     building of mips hosted llvm compilers.
>
>     We build a linux mips hosted compiler starting with llvm/clang on
>     x86 linux using the normal configure scripts and
>     then can use that resulting compiler to build further llvm/clang
>     native compilers on the mips linux host.
>
>     The cross compiler and native compiler driver for Mips works
>     seamlessly (thanks to Simon Atanasyan) just as gcc does.
>
>     For our build slave that is connected to the llvm build bots, we
>     are using our native clang/llvm (built as above) to built the llc
>     that is used for make check.
>
>     I'm doing some more work to automate the testing of the recursed
>     compilers and other verification on the mips target.
>
>
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