Please bring back the compiler-rt subproject tarball
- Dominant language
- LLVM
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Description
compiler-rt lets me build compiler builtin functions by just pointing my C compiler at the builtin's source code, this has been EXTREMELY useful to me when building minimal toolchains, especially for iOS toolchains since the iOS compiler-rt build seems to require a Mac, and for custom libcs. The full llvm-project tarball is over 60 times the size of just the compiler-rt tarball. If the compiler-rt subproject tarball isn't brought back I'll probably setup some repo that generates them myself.
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Research direction
Start by locating the historical compiler-rt subproject tarball generation and release entry points, then compare them with the current full llvm-project tarball process. Done means a separately downloadable compiler-rt tarball is produced again and supports the minimal-toolchain and iOS use cases described in the issue.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- build-system, compilers, release
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100