Re: JIT compiling with LLVM v9.0

On 2018-02-01 09:32:17 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:03 AM, Konstantin Knizhnik
> <k(dot)knizhnik(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
> > The same problem takes place with old versions of GCC: I have to upgrade GCC
> > to 7.2 to make it possible to compile this code.
> > The problem in not in compiler itself, but in libc++ headers.
>
> How can I get this branch to compile on ubuntu 16.04? I have llvm-5.0
> and gcc-5.4 installed. Do I need to compile with clang or gcc? Any
> CXXFLAGS required?

Just to understand: You're running in the issue with the header being
included from within the extern "C" {}? Hm, I've pushed a quick fix for
that.

Other than that, you can compile with both gcc or clang, but clang needs
to be available. Will be guessed from PATH if clang clang-5.0 clang-4.0
(in that order) exist, similar with llvm-config llvm-config-5.0 being
guessed. LLVM_CONFIG/CLANG/CXX= as an argument to configure overrides
both of that. E.g.
./configure --with-llvm LLVM_CONFIG=~/build/llvm/5/opt/install/bin/llvm-config
is what I use, although I also add:
LDFLAGS='-Wl,-rpath,/home/andres/build/llvm/5/opt/install/lib'
so I don't have to install llvm anywhere the system knows about.

Greetings,

Andres Freund