[llvm-dev] llvm-config output on MacOS

[Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev]

It may be that llvm-config simply doesn't understand a multi-configuration build tree.  Ninja and make use single-configuration trees, XCode and Visual Studio use multi-configuration.
--paulr

From: llvm-dev [mailto:llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of S. Bharadwaj Yadavalli via llvm-dev
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 10:24 PM
To: llvm-dev
Subject: [llvm-dev] llvm-config output on MacOS

Hi,

I configured and built LLVM as follows on Mac OS 10.13.2:


$ pwd

<llvm-build-dir>

$ cmake -G "Xcode" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<llvm-install-dir> -DLLVM_ENABLE_PIC=0 <llvm-src-dir>/llvm

$ xcodebuild -project LLVM.xcodeproj

All binaries are in <llvm-build-dir>/Debug/bin. I am interested in using the output of llvm-config. Now, when I run


$ <llvm-build-dir>/Debug/bin/llvm-config --cmakedir

<llvm-build-dir>/Debug/lib/cmake/llvm

But,

$ ls -d `<llvm-build-dir>/Debug/bin/llvm-config --cmakedir`

ls: <llvm-build-dir>/Debug/lib/cmake/llvm: No such file or directory

instead I have


$ ls -d <llvm-build-dir>/lib/cmake

<llvm-build-dir>/lib/cmake

As seen above, the output of llvm-config --cmakedir returns a non-existent directory. Took a quick look at the sources of llvm-config. Comment says the tool is designed to support being run from both dev tree and install path. Looks like the test to identify if the tool is being run from within dev tree is not recognizing that the tool is indeed being run from dev tree.

Would anyone know what I am missing?

I do not see this behavior on Linux - probably since build binaries are placed in <llvm-build-dir>/bin on Linux as opposed to <llvm-build-dir>/<build-type>/bin on MacOS.

Thanks,

Bharadwaj
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