linux-kernel - Re: Very slow clang kernel config ..

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Message-ID: <20210502164542.GA4522@localhost>
Date:   Sun, 2 May 2021 19:45:42 +0300
From:   Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Tom Stellard <tstellar@...hat.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Serge Guelton <sguelton@...hat.com>,
        Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@...illa.com>
Subject: Re: Very slow clang kernel config ..

On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 09:12:37AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 2:31 AM Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > The biggest advantage of shared libraries is that they enable
> > distributions to provide security fixes.
> 
> Adrian - you're ignoring the real argument, to the point that the
> above is basically a lie.
> 
> The argument was never that things like libc or the core GUI libraries
> shouldn't be shared.
> 
> The argument was that the "one-off" libraries shouldn't be shared.
> 
> Things very much like libLLVM.so.
>...

Mesa and PostgreSQL are among the packages that do use libLLVM.so,
this is a popular library for implementing compilers and JITs.

>             Linus

cu
Adrian