[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 154323] Remove LLVM dependencies from WebKit

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154323

--- Comment #4 from Filip Pizlo <fpizlo at apple.com> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> 
> > > But it would be great if we can leave LLVM disassebmler in the trunk.
> > 
> > I plan to remove it as well because of how hard it is to link to LLVM and
> > how often they break API.
> 
> Is the existance of the LLVM disassembler blocker for anything?
> 
> I haven't found any issue related to it in the past years ever.
> But removing it would make impossible to debug ARM traditional bugs.

It would be a lot better to just write our own arm disassembler.

The issue with the llvm one is that it goes through the same soft linking nonsense that we do for the rest of llvm. So, I'm not sure how you're proposing to keep it of gtk/efl removed the dependency from the build system.

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