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| author | Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com> | 2010-02-26 00:54:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com> | 2010-02-26 00:54:42 +0000 |
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Give packagers some advice about how to build LLVM so it's useful to
the most users.
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diff --git a/docs/Packaging.html b/docs/Packaging.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6eea38 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/Packaging.html @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> +<html> +<head> + <title>Advice on Packaging LLVM</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="llvm.css" type="text/css"> +</head> +<body> + +<div class="doc_title">Advice on Packaging LLVM</div> +<ol> + <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li> + <li><a href="#cxx-features">C++ Features</a></li> + <li><a href="#shared-library">Shared Library</a></li> +</ol> + +<!--=========================================================================--> +<div class="doc_section"><a name="overview">Overview</a></div> +<!--=========================================================================--> +<div class="doc_text"> + +<p>LLVM sets certain default configure options to make sure our developers don't +break things for constrained platforms. These settings are not optimal for most +desktop systems, and we hope that packagers (i.e., Redhat, Debian, MacPorts, +etc.) will tweak them. This document lists settings we suggest you tweak. +</p> +</div> + +<!--=========================================================================--> +<div class="doc_section"><a name="cxx-features">C++ Features</a></div> +<!--=========================================================================--> +<div class="doc_text"> + +<dl> + <dt>RTTI</dt><dd>LLVM disables RTTI by default. Add <tt>REQUIRES_RTTI=1</tt> + to your environment while running <tt>make</tt> to re-enable it. This will + allow users to build with RTTI enabled and inherit from LLVM classes.</dd> + <dt>Exceptions</dt><dd>LLVM disables exceptions by default. Add + <tt>REQUIRES_EH=1</tt> to your environment while running <tt>make</tt> to + re-enable them. This will allow users to link LLVM and exception-using code. + It also re-enables RTTI.</dd> +</dl> +</div> + +<!--=========================================================================--> +<div class="doc_section"><a name="shared-library">Shared Library</a></div> +<!--=========================================================================--> +<div class="doc_text"> + +<p>Configure with <tt>--enable-shared</tt> to build +<tt>libLLVM-<var>major</var>.<var>minor</var>.(so|dylib)</tt> and link the tools +against it. This saves lots of binary size at the cost of some startup time. +</p> +</div> + +<!-- *********************************************************************** --> +<hr> +<address> + <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"><img + src="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/images/vcss-blue" alt="Valid CSS"></a> + <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer"><img + src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-html401-blue" alt="Valid HTML 4.01"></a> + <a href="http://llvm.org">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br> + Last modified: $Date: 2009-01-01 23:10:51 -0800 (Thu, 01 Jan 2009) $ +</address> +</body> +</html> |