[llvm-dev] Consistently prefixing llvm/bin executables

[Carsten Mattner via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Davide Italiano <davide at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Carsten Mattner via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > Has it ever been considered to prefix executables like opt, bugpoint,
> > obj2yaml, yaml2obj and macho-dump with llvm-?
> >
>
> FYI, macho-dump doesn't exist anymore.
> That said, I understand the concerns for binutils equivalent (and maybe
> opt), but I don't think it's too much a concern for all the other
> tools. All the binutils equivalent have llvm- prefix as far as I can tell.
> Also, as a downside, prefixing llvm- makes the name more verbose
> (which I dislike).

Which could be circumvented with a driver/wrapper named llvm:

$ llvm ld ....
$ llvm opt ...
$ llvm cc
$ llvm db
$ llvm ranlib
$ llvm bugpoint
$ llvm yaml2obj
...