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[bug#49569] [PATCH] gnu: Add make-single-arch-llvm procedure.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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[bug#49569] [PATCH] gnu: Add make-single-arch-llvm procedure. |
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Mon, 26 Jul 2021 18:47:14 +0200 |
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Hi,
Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> * gnu/packages/llvm.scm (make-single-arch-llvm): New procedure.
> (llvm-native-12, llvm-native): New variables.
> ---
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> Using this copy of llvm for packages like mesa will reduce the closure
> of those packages. I don't suppose it would work as well for compilers
> like rust which use LLVM for compiling and targeting different
> architectures.
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> This drops the size of llvm-12 from 167M to 111M.
That’s less impressive than I would have thought.
For Mesa perhaps we could maybe have a variant that’s even more
stripped?
The downside of this is that we risk having several LLVM copies on
typical installations.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Ludo’.