toolchain status

[John Baldwin]

On 4/18/20 5:46 PM, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> Which architectures are still often built with an external toolchain? 
> I'd like to re-commit jemalloc 5.2.1.  It was reverted because 
> "compilation fails for non-llvm-based platforms."  I just built 
> tinderbox worlds with 5.2.1 with no problems, albeit with llvm.

All platforms now use LLVM.  You can still use GCC to build platforms,
but if amd64 builds fine with GCC 9 with the patch applied, I think
you should be fine to move forward (that is, if only GCC 6 fails to
build, we can just deprecate using GCC 6 as an external toolchain
for 13)

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John Baldwin