Clang as default compiler November 4th

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 06:29:00PM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> On 2012-09-10 14:12, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > [Please confine your replies to toolchain at freebsd.org to keep the thread
> > on the most relevant list.]
> >
> > For the past several years we've been working towards migrating from
> > GCC to Clang/LLVM as our default compiler.  We intend to ship FreeBSD
> > 10.0 with Clang as the default compiler on i386 and amd64 platforms.  To
> > this end, we will make WITH_CLANG_IS_CC the default on i386 and amd64
> > platforms on November 4th.
> 
> Just to be clear, this change will only apply to 10-current, 10.0-R and 
> higher-numbered releases and branches, correct?  That is, it won't apply 
> to RELENG_9 and earlier?

Yes.  We have no current plans to change the default on older branches.

I do plan to merge changes that make it easier for users to choose clang
as their base system compiler on 9-STABLE, but changing the compiler
would be a terrible idea.

-- Brooks
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