RFT: Please help testing the llvm/clang 3.5.0 import

John-Mark Gurney jmg at funkthat.com
Fri Dec 19 00:12:43 UTC 2014


Warner Losh wrote this message on Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 07:47 -0700:
> This is excellent news Dimitry!
> 
> > On Dec 16, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On 28 Nov 2014, at 22:03, Dimitry Andric <dim at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >> We're working on updating llvm, clang and lldb to 3.5.0 in head.  This
> >> is quite a big update again, and any help with testing is appreciated.
> >> 
> >> To try this out, ensure you have good backups or snapshots, then build
> >> world and kernel from the projects/clang350-import branch [1].  Please
> >> use a Subversion mirror [2], if you are able to.
> > 
> > Here are some updates about the status of the 3.5.0 import.
> > 
> > * i386 and amd64 have been tested through make universe, and everything
> >  should compile and run.
> > * Little-endian ARM builds should now compile and run, thanks to Andrew
> >  Turner for putting in lots of work.
> > * Big-endian ARM is apparently supposed to work, but I'm not sure if
> >  Andrew managed to test it on real hardware.
> 
> I know Andrew doesn???t have the right arm gear to do this test, and emulation
> environments that run FreeBSD have had poor big-endian support for arm.

I have a board that I plan to test on shortly...  If Andrew would like,
I know Jim Thompson has a standing offer to send board(s) to people who
will test it...

He provided me w/ the board I will be testing on soon...

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