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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 08:43:14
Message-Id: 7d3ad128-12bf-107a-747d-27799997ab03@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS by Michael
1 Michael wrote:
2 > On Saturday, 12 March 2022 01:34:45 GMT Dale wrote:
3 >> Howdy,
4 >>
5 >> I just noticed this in my updates:
6 >>
7 >> [ebuild U ] sys-devel/llvm-13.0.1:13::gentoo [13.0.0:13::gentoo]
8 >> USE="binutils-plugin%* libffi ncurses xml -debug -doc -exegesis -libedit
9 >> -test -xar -z3 (-gold%*)" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)"
10 >> LLVM_TARGETS="(AArch64*) (AMDGPU) (ARM*) (AVR*) (BPF) (Hexagon*)
11 >> (Lanai*) (MSP430*) (Mips*) (NVPTX) (PowerPC*) (RISCV*) (Sparc*)
12 >> (SystemZ*) (WebAssembly*) (X86) (XCore*) (-ARC) (-CSKY) (-M68k) (-VE)"
13 >>
14 >> The LLVM_TARGETS= part looks odd. Why do I need ARM, PowerPC, Sparc etc
15 >> here? Is that correct? The old still installed version doesn't have
16 >> those enabled.
17 >>
18 >> Thanks.
19 >>
20 >> Dale
21 >>
22 >> :-) :-)
23 > You don't need any of these targets in llvm and clang any more than I do.
24 > There's a bug which explains why these arch targets are now being forced, but
25 > I can't find it.
26
27
28 That was my thinking when I saw it.  It just looked odd to me.  I found
29 this bug.
30
31 https://bugs.gentoo.org/767700
32
33 Is that the one?  It mentions the target but I don't quite understand
34 the why.  The biggest thing, will this break something if I let it do
35 it?  I don't have any settings of my own on this package.  It was done
36 by a dev, who I assume has a good reason for this. 
37
38 Dale
39
40 :-)  :-) 

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>