Building LLVM and GCC, with Amake

Jim Buffenbarger

doi:10.1109/SCAM55253.2022.00025

Building LLVM and GCC, with Amake

Jim Buffenbarger

Computer Science Department

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Abstract

This paper describes the author's exploratory experience of porting the build systems of two large software distributions, the LLVM and GCC programming-language translation systems, to the Amake build tool. Amake is an enhanced derivative of GNU Make. Amake adds automatic language-independent dependency analysis and site-wide heterogeneous target caching. Amake also supports GNU Make's parallel-build capabilities. This experience included (mostly) expected changes to these build systems, but somewhat surprising changes to the design and implementation of Amake. A description of the former is hoped to encourage the migration of other build systems to Amake; the latter is Amake's latest set of improvements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 22nd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2022
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	170-175
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665496094
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM55253.2022.00025
State	Published - 2022
Event	22nd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2022 - Limassol, Cyprus Duration: 3 Oct 2022 → 4 Oct 2022

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Name	Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 22nd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2022

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Conference	22nd IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2022
Country/Territory	Cyprus
City	Limassol
Period	3/10/22 → 4/10/22

Keywords

computer aided software engineering
software engineering
software maintenance
software tools

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Buffenbarger, J. (2022). Building LLVM and GCC, with Amake. In Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 22nd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2022 (pp. 170-175). (Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 22nd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2022). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/SCAM55253.2022.00025

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Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 22nd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022. p. 170-175 (Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 22nd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2022).

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Buffenbarger J. Building LLVM and GCC, with Amake. In Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 22nd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2022. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2022. p. 170-175. (Proceedings - 2022 IEEE 22nd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2022). doi: 10.1109/SCAM55253.2022.00025

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