Re: [gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Tue, 2016-10-25 at 20:11 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:32:22 +0000
> Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@××××××××.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Noticed todays 2016-10-25-llvm_3_9_with_llvm_targets news item and read:
> > ..
> > In order to enable all targets, add the following to your
> > /etc/portage/package.use or equivalent file:
> >
> >   sys-devel/llvm LLVM_TARGETS: *
> >   sys-devel/clang LLVM_TARGETS: *
> > ...
> >
> > I would like to control such variables(LLVM_TARGETS) through the profile as
> > well but it seems not supported?
>
> Why not? We're already setting the defaults in profiles, and you can do
> whatever you want in your own profile. The news item is focused on
> regular users, so it covers the usual configuration files rather than
> creating custom profiles.
>


How? in my profile(which inherits gentoo:default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop) I just tested to add:

# > svn diff

Index: package.use

===================================================================

--- package.use	(revision 1087)

+++ package.use	(working copy)

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@

+sys-devel/llvm LLVM_TARGETS: *

+sys-devel/clang LLVM_TARGETS: *



Then I get:

# > emerge -aNDuv world

--- Invalid USE flag for 'sys-devel/llvm' in '/var/lib/layman/transmode/profiles/gentoo64/package.use':

'LLVM_TARGETS:'

--- Invalid USE flag for 'sys-devel/llvm' in '/var/lib/layman/transmode/profiles/gentoo64/package.use': '*'

--- Invalid USE flag for 'sys-devel/clang' in '/var/lib/layman/transmode/profiles/gentoo64/package.use':

'LLVM_TARGETS:'

--- Invalid USE flag for 'sys-devel/clang' in '/var/lib/layman/transmode/profiles/gentoo64/package.use': '*'