Proposal: Improving the LLVM backend by packaging it

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,


Am Samstag, den 01.11.2014, 11:26 -0500 schrieb Austin Seipp:
> > How long does building those two llvm binaries take? If it is
> > sufficiently quick, maybe that would be a suitable distribution for
> > developers as well, and avoids having to separately build, distribute,
> > download, and install the binaries.
> 
> In practice it takes a while... I haven't timed it, but I'd guess on
> average it adds about 30-40 minutes for most people just to build
> llvm. I'm not sure how many things we can disable to make the build
> faster, but I'd ballpark it at half an hour at best (it's a few
> thousand source files, after all).
> 
> This would mostly hurt if you cleaned up the tree later (e.g. 'make
> distclean'), which I do rather frequently in order to get a pristine
> build tree.

yes, me too. Which means that we’d have to go through the trouble of
distributing binaries...

But then: Do GHC developers actually need the LLVM binaries (unless they
want to test the llvm backend, of course)?

Greetings,
Joachim

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