llvm/clang a tool chain or just a compiler for FreeBSD?

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Jul 22 01:38:46 UTC 2009


"Shaowei Wang (wsw)" <wsw1wsw2 at gmail.com> writes:
> So what's the direction? Are we going to cut off all the GNU compiler
> tool chains and use the llvm/clang when it's mature.

Who's "we"?

Anyway, LLVM *isn't* mature, and it probably won't be for years, if
ever, so there's no point in asking.  If it ever reaches a point where
it covers our needs, and it's still under an acceptable license, and
somebody sits down and does the work and assumes the responsibility, and
portsmgr@ doesn't have a conniption because it breaks half the ports
tree, and core@ approves, and a majority of developers approve,
including those who think we should run with pcc instead but can't be
arsed to do the work, then maybe.  At this point, speculating about it
is just a waste of time and electrons.

DES
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