Bug#834144: llvm-3.8-dev: please add symlink from ./build to ../share and ../lib etc

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le 12/08/2016 à 15:38, Ximin Luo a écrit :
> Package: llvm-3.8-dev
> Version: 1:3.8.1-8
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Some software like compiler-rt expect --obj-root to contain the other
> directories like lib/ and share/. Take for example
>
> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/compiler-rt/blob/release_39/CMakeLists.txt#L57
>
> as well as an older version (currently in-use in rust-stable)
>
> https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-rt/blob/rust-2016-04-04/CMakeLists.txt#L109
>
> In both cases, LLVM_BINARY_DIR is actually --obj-root as can be seen from earlier in the file.
>
> Since Debian puts --obj-root in build/, then for the above assumptions to work
> build/ must contain symlinks to the other directories. It already contains ../include
> so the ones missing are ../lib and ../share.
>
> For now I will have to patch rustc in my local builds, but fixing this bug would
> make that unnecessary for the next release.
This file:
https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-llvm/llvm-toolchain/branches/3.8/debian/llvm-X.Y-dev.links.in?revision=1986&view=markup
should probably be updated.

Don't hesitate to provide a patch if you want to see that soon!

S