llvm-config suggestion

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#1

I recently tried out llvm-config:

% llvm-config --help
tcsh: ..../llvm/utils//llvm-config: Permission denied.

The issue is that I haven't installed my llvm-tree, I'm running it out of my build directory. Further, llvm/utils is in my path, and apparently the shell is trying to run the utils/llvm-config directory as a program, which obviously doesn't work very well.

A simple suggestion to improve the situation:

1. Move utils/llvm-config -> tools/llvm-config
2. Make the *built* llvm-config get put into llvm/Debug/bin/ with the rest
    of the tools.

This would make it work more naturally, without having to install the llvm tree or add new dirs to our PATH's.

Reasonable, or no?

-Chris

#2

Well, we had llvm-config in tools originally and moved it out because it
isn't really a tool. Furthermore, it doesn't work 100% yet and probably
won't until after 1.7. I can move it if that's where you want it.

Reid.

#3

Well, we had llvm-config in tools originally and moved it out because it
isn't really a tool. Furthermore, it doesn't work 100% yet and probably
won't until after 1.7. I can move it if that's where you want it.

Logically it builds and installs as a tool, unlike utils which aren't installed. I'd prefer it to be in tools, but if there is a reason not to put it there, that's fine too.

-Chris