I was unable to get the instructions to work if LLVM was built
using a separate objects directory.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@122656 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
diff --git a/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html b/docs/WritingAnLLVMPass.html
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@@ -178,9 +178,11 @@
<div class="doc_text">
- <p>First, you need to create a new directory somewhere in the LLVM source
+ <p>First, configure and build LLVM. This needs to be done directly inside the
+ LLVM source tree rather than in a separate objects directory.
+ Next, you need to create a new directory somewhere in the LLVM source
base. For this example, we'll assume that you made
- <tt>lib/Transforms/Hello</tt>. Next, you must set up a build script
+ <tt>lib/Transforms/Hello</tt>. Finally, you must set up a build script
(Makefile) that will compile the source code for the new pass. To do this,
copy the following into <tt>Makefile</tt>:</p>
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