[llvm-dev] [RFC] Strategies for Bootstrapping Compiler-RT builtins

[Rowan, Jim via llvm-dev]

On Nov 2, 2015, at 11:10 AM, Chris Bieneman via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

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> Today building this toolchain with CMake is impossible because you cannot configure the cross-compiled builtins. The failure is a result of CMake’s try_compile function always testing a full compile then link operation. When bootstrapping a cross-compiler this will always fail because linking even the simplest applications fails when you don’t have libclang_rt prebuilt.
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Are there side-effects from try_compile that we need?  Can we disable it?


Jim Rowan
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