[llvm-dev] [CMake] LLVM_PROGRAM_PREFIX support

[Krzysztof Parzyszek via llvm-dev]

On 7/20/2016 2:52 PM, Martin J. O'Riordan via llvm-dev wrote:
> I’m not against the idea, but why do we need prefixes at all?  I
> understand with GCC the need to prefix with the target triple as it uses
> separate programs for each target, but I think that is not the case with
> LLVM/CLang

This has been discussed in the past and there was some interest in this 
feature. Our use case is that we ship the Hexagon compiler that only has 
the Hexagon target in it. On top of that, it is a cross-compiler, so it 
runs on X86, but generates code for Hexagon. All relevant binaries in 
that installation are prefixed with hexagon-, so that clang is 
hexagon-clang, etc. This avoids any potential name conflicts with the 
host clang.

-Krzysztof

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