Building Swift toolchain against prebuilt LLVM binaries (under Linux)

[Finagolfin]

@brainchild

The design objective of LLVM seems to be general and complete coverage of high-level programming languages. It is concerning that a lack of convergence may represent overall limitations of LLVM, perhaps prompting reflection over the compatibility of the two projects.

Nah, any software project grows in new directions, and I imagine that the Swift devs, who often are or were LLVM devs, keep adding new LLVM features, which they may then upstream.

@brainchild

@Finagolfin

Do you have any concrete recommendations for easily interpreting the relevant points of the sources you mention?

I reviewed both, but remain confused about a set of flags that prompts the most basic build of of the local working copy of the project. Flags limited to -RA was not successful.

First off, I never asked the question you attribute to me, so I ask that you carefully remove any AI slop you are using.

Using -RA alone should work, as I show in a container here, so you'll have to be more specific about what didn't work for you.

@brainchild

Would you mind identifying the point (e.g. via a link to one or more specific comments) where the particular issue is introduced or resolved in the discussion?

I suggest you skim that thread till you find the relevant comments, as there is a detailed discussion of packaging there, but the best approach is to actually look at the Fedora packaging script I pointed you at twice above.