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[gn build] Add template for running llvm-tblgen and use it to add build file for llvm/lib/IR.
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Authored by thakis on Nov 28 2018, 2:09 PM.

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Also adds a boring build file for llvm/lib/BinaryFormat (needed by llvm/lib/IR).

lib/IR marks Attributes and IntrinsicsEnum as public_deps (because IR's public headers include the generated .inc files), so projects depending on lib/IR will implicitly depend on them being generated. As a consequence, most targets won't have to explicitly list a dependency on these tablegen steps (contrast with intrinsics_gen in the cmake build).

This doesn't yet have the optimization where tablegen's output is only updated if it's changed.

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thakis created this revision.Nov 28 2018, 2:09 PM
thakis updated this revision to Diff 175770.Nov 28 2018, 2:12 PM

git ls-files '*.gn' '*.gni' | xargs -n 1 gn format

thakis edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Nov 28 2018, 2:16 PM

…wait, putting the copy-if-different logic in the tablegen runner as I did doesn't actually work, since tablegen will write the name of the temp file in the depfile this way. I'll just put a FIXME for adding write-if-different back into tablegen itself (aka reland r330742) and revert the runner script to the 2 lines it originally was. I'll upload a new patch set in an hour or two; if you look earlier please ignore run_tablegen.py (the rest will stay as-is).

thakis updated this revision to Diff 175781.Nov 28 2018, 3:41 PM
thakis edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)

remove not functional "write if different" attempt

phosek added inline comments.Nov 28 2018, 11:37 PM
llvm/utils/gn/build/run_tablegen.py
8

Chromium version does more fancy error checking on Windows, shall we do the same?

llvm/utils/gn/secondary/llvm/utils/TableGen/tablegen.gni
27

Have you considered copying Chromium's [compiled_action.gni](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/build/compiled_action.gni) and then implementing tablegen in terms of that? It seems generally useful as I suspect you'll need the same functionality for Clang tablegen as well in the future.

37

You should probably forward testonly as well`.

thakis marked 3 inline comments as done.Nov 29 2018, 7:42 AM

Thanks for the review!

llvm/utils/gn/build/run_tablegen.py
8

That's somewhat recent (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/8c50b3ed049c736406943ac24dc40fc8ac1e782c). Since this script is only used to run tblgen, shorter code seemed preferable over the small utility gain.

llvm/utils/gn/secondary/llvm/utils/TableGen/tablegen.gni
27

I did consider it! Right now this is only used for tablegen though, and for upstreaming I figured I'd make clang_tblgen call this template and make tblgen_target something the invoker can set, and then clang_tblgen would look like (pseudocode):

template("clang_tblgen") {

tablegen($target_name) {
  tblgen_target = "//clang/utils/TableGen:clang-tblgen"
}

}

(in my prototyping branch, clang-tblgen is just a copy-pasted version of this file so I'm not 100% sure if this is going to pan out, but I think it should.)

37

I haven't needed it yet -- are you aware of any test-only tblgen invocations?

phosek accepted this revision.Nov 29 2018, 2:05 PM

LGTM

llvm/utils/gn/secondary/llvm/utils/TableGen/tablegen.gni
37

Nope, but it's a general pattern to always forward visibility and testonly.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Nov 29 2018, 2:05 PM
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