On 2016/04/28 02:20PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> It is practical to be-able-to redefine the location of the LLVM
> command 'llc', because not all distros have a LLVM version with bpf
> target support. Thus, it is sometimes required to compile LLVM from
> source, and sometimes it is not desired to overwrite the distros
> default LLVM version.
>
> This feature was removed with 128d1514be35 ("samples/bpf: Use llc in
> PATH, rather than a hardcoded value").
>
> Add this features back. Note that it is possible to redefine the LLC
> on the make command like:
>
> make samples/bpf/ LLC=~/git/llvm/build/bin/llc
I don't have an objection to this patch, but you didn't explain why/how
this approach is better than just doing:
PATH=~/git/llvm/build/bin make samples/bpf/
- Naveen
