Re: [gentoo-dev] LLVM News item

[Ian Stakenvicius]

On 25/10/16 03:32 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> On 25/10/16 03:08 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>> 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': '*'
>>
>
> Syntax error:
>
> sys-devel/llvm llvm_targets_firstone llvm_targets_secondone ..
> sys-devel/clang llvm_targets_firstone llvm_targets_secondone ..
>
>
> You can't specify wildcards to enable groups of use flags.
>
>

Correction, the earlier syntax *is* supposed to work (and tested that
it works here, with VIDEO_CARDS)..  If I had to guess this probably
relates to an issue with the transmode overlay.