Clang as default compiler November 4th

Jeremy Messenger mezz.freebsd at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 15:03:16 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Konstantin Belousov
<kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
> Can you, please, read what I wrote ? Fixing _ports_ to compile with
> clang is plain wrong. Upstream developers use gcc almost always for
> development and testing. Establishing another constant cost on the
> porting work puts burden on the ports submitters, maintainers and even
> ports users.
>
> I do strongly oppose the attempt to drain the freebsd resources by
> forcing porters to port third-party code to other compiler.

I agree with this pretty much.

I haven't done fix any of port build with clang as I simply ignore
clang (sorry). When user report to me and I tell them to stick with
GCC as I don't support it.

Cheers,
Mezz


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