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Reputation: 10204

A dilemma in developing LLVM project on Mac OS X : the most recent LLVM source vs. old LLVM binary on Mac

My OS is Mac OS X 10.9. I am trying to develop an LLVM project which requires setting the LLVM source path to some environment variable, say LLVM_SRC_PATH.

However, it seems that there is no llvm source on Mac. So I have downloaded the recent llvm source (v 3.6) via its git mirror.

The dilemma is, my OS X uses llvm 3.5 (from `clang --version'), which implies a possible inconsistency between my source of LLVM and the binary of LLVM that the OS uses by default. Naturally, I would update my machine's LLVM binary by compiling the newly downloaded LLVM source. But then I see the stackoverflow answer to someoneelse's question, which basically says it is a bad idea to update llvm on Mac.

Perhaps I misunderstand something?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 127

Answers (1)

Colin LeMahieu
Colin LeMahieu

Reputation: 618

If you use macports it will install LLVM in the /opt directory with and easy way to deactivate it. This was you won't overwrite the system compiler accidentally.

Upvotes: 2

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