Control: reopen -1 Control: reassign -1 llvm-10,llvm-13,llvm-14,llvm-15,llvm-16
On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 03:39:49PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > llvm-6.0 ships a llvm-config tool for discovering aspects such as > libdir. I have no clue what prevented upstream from using the > well-established pkg-config mechanism, but the present llvm-config is > completely unusable for cross compilation: > * You cannot query the build llvm-config, because it gives you the > wrong values. > * You cannot query the host llvm-config, because Exec format error. > > Others have recognized that llvm-config is a repetition of a widley > known mistake: > * https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9405 > * https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=219369 > > Others are implementing workarounds now: > * https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/issues/1531 > * https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/3327 > > There even is a tool to derive the .pc file from llvm-config: > * https://hackage.haskell.org/package/llvm-pkg-config > > Helmut The problem remains fully unsolved. Helmut
