[llvm-dev] lld: add build-time control for including ELF / COFF / Mach-O linkers?

[Ed Maste via llvm-dev]

On 12 September 2016 at 16:52, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:
> My understanding is that FreeBSD is using some build process other than the
> standard CMake and thus you needed to write your own Makefile to build LLD,
> and you want to minimize this effort by just compiling the ELF part of the
> linker. Is this correct?

Correct.

> If your motivation is to make non-standard build
> process easy, my feeling is that it is not strong enough to justify to
> separate them out.

Ok. It's easy enough to carry our small patch in FreeBSD until we
either start building everything with our own build process, or we
migrate to the stock build process.