[llvm-dev] Building SVN head with CMake - shared libraries?

[Ismail Donmez via llvm-dev]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Chris Bieneman via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> On Jan 14, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 14, 2016, at 9:38 AM, Chris Bieneman via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> On Jan 14, 2016, at 5:18 AM, Dan Liew <dan at su-root.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 14 January 2016 at 11:24, David Jones via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> Thanks - I'll try this tonight.
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> Assuming it works, should these variables be added to the docs at
> http://llvm.org/docs/CMake.html ?
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> Yes.
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> It probably makes sense to add LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB, but I would discourage
> adding BUILD_SHARED_LIBS to that document. BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is rarely what
> people actually want, and a lot of people gravitate to it because the
> wording is similar to the autoconf —enable-shared flag.
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> Considering that BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is rarely what people want, wouldn’t it
> make sense to document it to explicitly discourage people from using it and
> avoid them surprising behavior?
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> Honestly, I’m not sure *anyone* actually wants that behavior, and I’d kinda
> like to remove the option entirely.

Do I understand it correctly that LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB produces a one
big libLLVM.so and a lot of static libraries? Btw currently for
openSUSE builds we do utilize BUILD_SHARED_LIBS so please don't remove
it.

Thanks!