From: Nick Lewycky <nicholas@mxc.ca>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:52:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fail less mysteriously; inform the user that their LLVM was not built with
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Fail less mysteriously; inform the user that their LLVM was not built with
libffi support and that the interpreter can't call external functions without
it. Patch by Timo Juhani Lindfors! Fixes PR5466.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@89062 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
---

diff --git a/lib/ExecutionEngine/Interpreter/ExternalFunctions.cpp b/lib/ExecutionEngine/Interpreter/ExternalFunctions.cpp
index a620de59cfd..8b4e9613ad7 100644
--- a/lib/ExecutionEngine/Interpreter/ExternalFunctions.cpp
+++ b/lib/ExecutionEngine/Interpreter/ExternalFunctions.cpp
@@ -284,6 +284,9 @@ GenericValue Interpreter::callExternalFunction(Function *F,
   else
     llvm_report_error("Tried to execute an unknown external function: " +
                       F->getType()->getDescription() + " " +F->getName());
+#ifndef USE_LIBFFI
+  errs() << "Recompiling LLVM with --enable-libffi might help.\n";
+#endif
   return GenericValue();
 }