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authorReid Spencer <rspencer@reidspencer.com>2004-11-25 17:13:17 +0000
committerReid Spencer <rspencer@reidspencer.com>2004-11-25 17:13:17 +0000
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Add some instructions about ranlib'ing the CFE runtime libraries so that
they link faster. This should eventually be codified into the CFE's makefile. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@18247 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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@@ -232,6 +232,20 @@ libgcc.a library, which you can find by running
% setenv LLVM_LIB_SEARCH_PATH $CFEINSTALL/bytecode-libs
</pre></li>
+<li><p>Optionally, build a symbol table for the newly installed runtime
+libraries. Although this step is optional, you are encouraged to do this as the
+symbol tables will make a significant difference in your link times. Use
+the <tt>llvm-ranlib</tt> tool to do this, as follows:</p>
+<pre>
+ % cd $CFEINSTALL/lib
+ % llvm-ranlib libiberty.a
+ % llvm-ranlib libstdc++.a
+ % llvm-ranlib libsubc++.a
+ % cd $CFEINSTALL/lib/<i>target-triplet</i>/3.4-llvm
+ % llvm-ranlib libgcc.a
+ % llvm-ranlib libgcov.a
+</pre>
+
<li><p>Test the newly-installed C frontend by one or more of the
following means:</p>
<ul>