[haskell-llvm] TARGET detection

[Nathan Howell]

Agreed. Please make the change and send a pull request.


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Henning Thielemann <
lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

>
> There are two methods in llvm-base for detecting the host target and
> adapting LLVM.Target.Native to it:
>
> 1) The configure script scans the output of $(llvm-config --libs) and
> extracts the target portion of libLLVM*CodeGen. Then it replaces the
> keyword TARGET in LLVM.Target.Native with the detected target.
>
> 2) The module LLVM.Target.Native calls the macro
> LLVMInitializeNativeTarget from llvm-c/Target.h which does the right thing.
>
>
> The second method is the one that is currently used. I propose to remove
> the first one since it is complicated and seems to be fragile.
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