Migration to dynamic libs for llvm and clang
Ed Maste
emaste at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 16 15:46:32 UTC 2014
One of goals for the toolchain prior to the FreeBSD 11 branch is to
create a libllvm.so and libclang.so for use by all of the LLVM family
tools installed in the base system. This message is just a heads-up in
case anyone has questions or comments on the idea.
We currently build a large number of static libs for the llvm and
clang components, which are reused in a number of tools in the LLVM
family. The resulting binaries end up quite large, and as a group
require a lot of disk space. For example, LLDB includes a copy of
Clang, used as its expression parser. As a result, on my desktop
/usr/bin/clang and /usr/bin/lldb are both 27MB.
Over time we may add additional LLVM family tools (e.g.,
llvm-objdump), and this will help avoid excessive bloat as we do so.
I expect libllvm.so and libclang.so will go in /usr/lib/private.
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