I am trying to compile apache2 with LLVM, to generate final binaries in LLVM IR.
I used flto option in compiling and linking and passed "also-emit-llvm" to the linker through clang. It seems to work for most steps, however I had two concerns
1) Earlier I used LLVM 3.6, whose gold plugin doesn't accept also-emit-llvm, but has emit-llvm only, basically it will emit only elf or llvm. Which the Autotools build system doesn't like. The configure and make script want binaries, while I want llvm. Any solutions to this?
2) So I shifted to LLVM 3.5.2, the build process goes well, I can generate both httpd.bc and httpd elf binaries, but the linker doesn't want to link for modules (it was able to link for binaries) Specifically, I get this error
`
/usr/share/apr-1.0/build/libtool --silent --mode=link /home/rbhatia/Desktop/llvm-newbuild/bin/clang -pthread -flto -o mod_authn_file.la -rpath /home/rbhatia/Desktop/httpd-2.4.12/llvm/modules -module -avoid-version mod_authn_file.lo
/usr/bin/ld: error: .libs/mod_authn_file.o:1:3: invalid chaenter code hereracter
/usr/bin/ld: error: .libs/mod_authn_file.o:1:3: syntax error, unexpected $end
/usr/bin/ld: error: .libs/mod_authn_file.o: not an object or archive
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
`
I can see that mod_authn_file.o is a valid LLVM IR file which I can disassemble with llvm-dis. Also, just before this step, the linker is able to link httpd and httpd.bc
Any help on what the error is?
