[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #38564] llvm 3.2 does not provide required header

[Michael Godfrey]

Follow-up Comment #62, bug #38564 (project octave):

There was some side discussion of how to deal with
static vs. dynamic libraries.  The main result is below:
Sorry about not keeping to the original bug report.
This report should probably re renamed to llvm 3.2 and newer
configuration problems.
>> On 08/11/2013 01:53 PM, Max Brister wrote:
>>>
>>> That would be good. I'm not sure what the problem is. Picking which
>>> libraries to link to hasn't changed since llvm 3.1. We just use
>>> llvm-config.
>>
>> I looked at this a bit more.  It appears that the only method may be:
>> 1. Use llvm-config --libdir  to find the library directory.
>> 2. Test for the needed *.so files in that directory.  Is libLLVM-3.3.so
>>      all that is needed?
>> 3. Set the right options for the linker.
>>
>> I have no idea why llvm-config --libnames produces the same output whether
>> the static libraries are installed of not, and anyhow only reports the
>> static libraries.
>>
>> How did this work in 3.1?  Have you found a better way for 3.3?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> It looks like we might have to write the check ourselves for shared vs
> static libraries in configure.ac.
>

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