In 89146e84c9, a heuristic was introduced where
if libLLVMSupport is available as a static library, LLVM itself is assumed
to be availble as a static library as a whole.
This is unfortunately not the case at least on Gentoo and Arch Linux, where
a subsequent llvm-config call yields:
```
$ /usr/lib/llvm/17/bin/llvm-config --libfiles --link-static
llvm-config: error: missing: /usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libLLVMTargetParser.a
llvm-config: error: missing: /usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libLLVMBinaryFormat.a
llvm-config: error: missing: /usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libLLVMBitstreamReader.a
llvm-config: error: missing: /usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libLLVMRemarks.a
[...]
```
On Gentoo, where LLVM's static libraries are not included, we still have:
```
$ equery f llvm:17 | grep -i lib64/.*.a$
/usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libLLVMDemangle.a
/usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libLLVMSupport.a
/usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libLLVMTableGen.a
/usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libLLVMTestingAnnotations.a
/usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libLLVMTestingSupport.a
/usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libllvm_gtest.a
/usr/lib/llvm/17/lib64/libllvm_gtest_main.a
```
Therefore, testing for libLLVMSupport is insufficient. We now try libLLVMCore
instead, as that appears to only be installed when LLVM truly has static libraries
available. libLLVMCore is handled as a LLVM component which gives us some guarantee
this is supposed to be happening and not a fluke.
(Specifically, LLVM's llvm/lib/Support/CMakeLists.txt pays 0 attention to
-DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB and -DLLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB, and is hence only affected
by -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS, which LLVM upstream say is only to be used for development.
Therefore, with -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF (as is recommended/the default) and
-DLLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=ON, you will get a static libLLVMSupport, without it
indicating anything about the rest of your configuration.)
Closes: https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/12323
Fixes: 89146e84c9
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com>
llvm-config is unsuitable for standard cross-compile,
because we need to build llvm especially for it, which
is not done is almost any distros, so, for example,
standard bootstrap chroot will be unsuitable.
This patch is trying to acheive feature parity between
config-tool searching of LLVM and CMake-based one,
which is arch-agnostic.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin <ria.freelander@gmail.com>
D lang compilers have an option -release (or similar) which turns off
asserts, contracts, and other runtime type checking. This patch wires
that up to the b_ndebug flag.
Fixes#7082
Sam James
Josh Soref
Konstantin
Daniel Mensinger
Dylan Baker