Re: [ITA] llvm

On 2025-07-15 23:28, Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2025, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 
>> Jeremy Drake via Cygwin-apps writes:
>>> There is another PR in progress that adds more symlinks for DLLs on
>>> Cygwin.  This is a little bit confusing from a packaging standpoint
>>> because these are un-versioned dll names cygLLVM.dll -> cygLLVM-20.dll, or
>>> cygclang.dll -> cygclang-20.1.dll.  These are added for code that uses
>>> dlopen and friends to call the C API (apparently the python bindings to
>>> libclang do this).
>>
>> Shoot it down.  These symlinks are idiocy since they will not work in
>> general, depending on the type of symlink used and the loader that tries
>> to process them.  ATWIL and all that, but there is no ldconfig or
>> similar here.
>>
>>> How do packages handle this situation?
>>
>> Not at all.  Such nonsense must not be packaged.
> 
> How should the libclang python binding work then (it uses ctypes)?
> 
> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/6d0f573535e27171e4ef927baeab3edc928beebb/clang/bindings/python/clang/cindex.py#L4348-L4379
> 
> No other platform includes a version number there.  It's pretty clear that
> the intent of the PR is to then add
>      elif if name.startswith("CYGWIN"):
>          file = "cygclang.dll"
> 
> I don't think they really want "cygclang-20.1.dll" and have to bump that
> with every release.
> 
> You might say, only bump the soversion on an ABI-breaking change, but
> changing the release processes of llvm-project is pretty far outside the
> scope of adding Cygwin platform support ;)

Use alternatives and/or a postinstall script?

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