Re: [PATCH v3 10/30] perf clang: Add builtin clang support ant test case

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Tue Jan 17 2017 - 13:36:52 EST


On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 5:38 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [acme@jouet linux]$ ls -lah /tmp/perf
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 acme acme 4.4M Jan 17 10:29 /tmp/perf
> [acme@jouet linux]$ size /tmp/perf
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 3954488 622440 23912104 28489032 1b2b548 /tmp/perf
> [acme@jouet linux]$ ldd /tmp/perf | egrep -i llvm\|clang
> libclangAST.so.40 => /usr/local/lib/libclangAST.so.40 (0x00007f4964981000)
...
> libLLVMSystemZDisassembler.so.40 => /usr/local/lib/libLLVMSystemZDisassembler.so.40 (0x00007f495fe70000)
...
> libLLVMSparcDisassembler.so.40 => /usr/local/lib/libLLVMSparcDisassembler.so.40 (0x00007f495f14f000)
...
> libLLVMPowerPCDisassembler.so.40 => /usr/local/lib/libLLVMPowerPCDisassembler.so.40 (0x00007f495de94000)
...
> libLLVMMSP430CodeGen.so.40 => /usr/local/lib/libLLVMMSP430CodeGen.so.40 (0x00007f495c79d000)
...
> libLLVMMipsDisassembler.so.40 => /usr/local/lib/libLLVMMipsDisassembler.so.40 (0x00007f495bf73000)

I think the static binary shouldn't be including all llvm backends.
It's not clear to me why .so pulls them all.
fyi I typically configure llvm with:
-DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="X86;BPF"