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From: Lei Zhang <zhanglei.april@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: LLVM
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 23:34:15
Message-Id: CAOYuCc2+B2DDPDMpA0xWpGXxuZQJVKm=Rf8COrKdTNMRyyJCJQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New project: LLVM by "C Bergström"
1 2016-08-18 21:56 GMT+08:00 C Bergström <cbergstrom@×××××××××.com>:
2 > @mgorny may be able to help with some of this and has quite a bit of
3 > experience building clang/llvm. Where I work we use a "wrapper" that
4 > helps coordinate a lot of the moving pieces.
5 >
6 > https://github.com/pathscale/llvm-suite/
7 >
8 > This may not be the perfect "gentoo" way to handle it, but the
9 > approach would produce a clean and correct compiler. With llvm
10 > dependencies getting more and more complicated, I'm not sure if it
11 > would be possible to have both a gnu-free and also perfect
12 > 1-project-source-repo:1-ebuild ratio.
13
14 Currently the ebuilds for libunwind, libc++abi and libc++ all involve
15 some hackery to support standalone build. And the package clang is
16 just a placeholder, while it's actually built in llvm.
17
18 Maybe we can put them all into the llvm package, and control what
19 components to build via USE flags.
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21
22 Lei

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