[Toybox] Tried NDK 18b...

[enh]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 8:59 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> Still no llvm-cc symlink. :(

i'll pass that on to our LLVM folks.

> The binaries on http://releases.llvm.org/download.html#7.0.0 don't have that
> symlink either. Any idea how to poke the upstream llvm devs to _add_ it?

you could file a bug, except their bug tracker isn't allowing new
accounts because of spam. (this appears to have been the case for
years now!)

> Rob
>
> P.S. I know posix switched from "cc" to "c99" as the recommended compiler name
> despite c11 being out for 7 years now. But as with tar->pax and yanking cpio
> from their standard, and still specifying sccs and batch/qdel, nobody seems to
> care. Posix is _way_ out of touch in places.
>
> If you want to wean things like the linux kernel build off of "gcc" as the
> compiler name, "cc" is the name you go to, and it's one ubuntu's already got.
> And you already have a constent "llvm-" prefix on every _other_ command in the
> toolchain _except_ cc.
>
> P.P.S. No, I don't know why the llvm prepackaged binaries have llvm-cat. How
> they can have llvm-diff,

llvm-cat and llvm-diff are tools for concatenating/diffing bitcode
files. they're not replacements for cat/diff.

> llvm-size, llvm-split, and llvm-strings but _not_
> llvm-cc I couldn't tell you. It'd be really nice if they removed most of that
> crap before builds grew dependencies on them...
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