Firefox and llvm

Jan Beich jbeich at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 17 01:31:14 UTC 2019


"Mikhail T." <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com> writes:

> Gentlemen, do you realize, building Firefox on FreeBSD today one has
> to wait for the entire LLVM to be recompiled -- /twice/: once because
> gecko, inexplicably, wants LLVM itself, and also because rust builds
> its own bundled version...
>
> What's wrong with the binaries provided by the base OS?.. Yours,

See https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhyDoIHaveToBuildLLVMWhenIAlreadyHaveClangInstalled
Maybe add "www/firefox needs libclang.so since 56.0 and llvm-objdump since 67.0"
if you have wiki account.


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