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22: fails to build with error: 'readlink' is not a member of 'llvm::sys::fs'; did you mean 'create_link'?

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Description

started to fail today on this:

```

/build/source/llvm/lib/ExecutionEngine/Orc/TargetProcess/LibraryScanner.cpp:443:17: error: 'readlink' is not a member of 'llvm::sys::fs'; did you mean 'create_link'?
443 | if (!sys::fs::readlink(Path, Buf)) {
| ^~~~~~~~
| create_link
At global scope:
```

```

FAILED: [code=1] lib/ExecutionEngine/Orc/TargetProcess/CMakeFiles/LLVMOrcTargetProcess.dir/LibraryScanner.cpp.o
/opt/sccache//sccache /usr/bin/g++ -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS -I/build/source/build-llvm/lib/ExecutionEngine/Orc/TargetProcess -I/build/source/llvm/lib/ExecutionEngine/Orc/TargetProcess -I/build/source/build-llvm/include -I/build/source/llvm/include -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fcf-protection -Wno-unused-command-line-argument -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -fno-semantic-interposition -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -Werror=date-time -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wno-missing-field-initializers -pedantic -Wno-long-long -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wno-maybe-uninitialized -Wno-nonnull -Wno-class-memaccess -Wno-dangling-reference -Wno-redundant-move -Wno-pessimizing-move -Wno-array-bounds -Wno-stringop-overread -Wno-noexcept-type -Wdelete-non-virtual-dtor -Wsuggest-override -Wno-comment -Wno-misleading-indentation -Wctad-maybe-unsupported -fdiagnostics-color -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/source/build-llvm=../ -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/source/= -no-canonical-prefixes -ffile-prefix-map=/build/source/build-llvm=../ -ffile-prefix-map=/build/source/= -no-canonical-prefixes -O3 -DNDEBUG -std=c++17 -fno-exceptions -funwind-tables -MD -MT lib/ExecutionEngine/Orc/TargetProcess/CMakeFiles/LLVMOrcTargetProcess.dir/LibraryScanner.cpp.o -MF lib/ExecutionEngine/Orc/TargetProcess/CMakeFiles/LLVMOrcTargetProcess.dir/LibraryScanner.cpp.o.d -o lib/ExecutionEngine/Orc/TargetProcess/CMakeFiles/LLVMOrcTargetProcess.dir/LibraryScanner.cpp.o -c /build/source/llvm/lib/ExecutionEngine/Orc/TargetProcess/LibraryScanner.cpp
```

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Research direction

Start with llvm/lib/ExecutionEngine/Orc/TargetProcess/LibraryScanner.cpp at the reported line, then inspect the llvm::sys::fs declarations and recent API changes related to readlink. Re-run the LLVMOrcTargetProcess build target using the shown CMake-generated command; done means this source file compiles successfully without the reported error.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cmake, cpp
Domain
build-system, compilers
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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