The goal of this patch is to improve distribution build's flexibility to include only applicable header files.
Currently, the clang-resource-headers target contains nearly all the files in clang/lib/Headers. Most of these files are platform specific (e.g. immintrin.h is x86 specific). A distribution build will have to either include all the headers for all the platforms, or not include any headers. For example, if a distribution build for powerpc includes the clang-resource-headers target, it will include all the x86 specific headers, even-though the x86 specific headers cannot be used.
This patch breaks up the clang-resource-headers list to a core list and platform specific lists. With the patch, a distribution build can now include the ppc-resource-headers to include the headers applicable to the powerpc platform.
Specifically, one can now have
cmake ... LLVM_DISTRIBUTION_COMPONENTS="clang;ppc-resource-headers" ... ../llvm
ninja install-distribution then installs the powerpc headers.
Similarly, one can do
cmake ... LLVM_DISTRIBUTION_COMPONENTS="clang;x86-resource-headers" ... ../llvm
to include headers applicable to the x86 platform in a distribution installation.
To implement this behaviour, the patch does two things
- It breaks up the long files header file list to a core list and platform specific lists.
- It adds numerous platform specific installation targets.
This may or may not be a good way to break up the long header list to add new targets, so I am all ears for suggestions/feedback! Also, we may need to add other reviewers. May I get some suggestions on that as well?
Thanks so much!
Verified the list is correct to X86. Nit: should make them in alphabetical order?