[llvm-dev] Building a program with LLVM on Unix

[David Chisnall via llvm-dev]

On 23 Mar 2016, at 18:06, Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 5:55 PM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> If you’re shipping binaries, statically link.
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> That's a good question - should I ship binaries? I've picked up the idea that if you want a Linux program of a version that isn't included in your distro packages, you build from source, but it seems here that including a binary in the tarball would do no harm, and perhaps save users some trouble? It seems to make sense but be something not usually done, so I figure I'd better check.

If the source is available and you have a vaguely sane release model (i.e. tarballs are available, dependencies are all on released versions of software), don’t ship binaries, just let the distributions worry about packaging it.

David