From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 13:54:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15C85DCF for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:54:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.rcn.com (smtp.rcn.com [69.168.97.78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D03B91BB3 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:54:56 +0000 (UTC) X_CMAE_Category: , , X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=d5B3OGfE c=1 sm=1 a=PfRRqASh+22Lc+SRmnf6GA==:17 a=L9H7d07YOLsA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=sIt-5M63AAAA:8 a=F23uU8RbzNy54pWHS2UA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=PfRRqASh+22Lc+SRmnf6GA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine X-Authed-Username: cm9iZXJ0aHVmZkByY24uY29t Authentication-Results: smtp01.rcn.cmh.synacor.com smtp.mail=roberthuff@rcn.com; spf=neutral; sender-id=neutral Received-SPF: neutral (smtp01.rcn.cmh.synacor.com: 209.6.231.137 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of rcn.com) Received: from [209.6.231.137] ([209.6.231.137:50834] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) by smtp.rcn.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.6.2.43620 r(Platform:3.6.2.0)) with ESMTP id 04/DE-42102-8F7D2945; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:34:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <21650.55288.425711.209975@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:34:48 -0500 To: Dimitry Andric Subject: Re: RFT: Please help testing the llvm/clang 3.5.0 import In-Reply-To: References: <8598B1D4-5485-426F-B6D6-22BF26AC5FE1@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.2.0b under 24.4.1 (amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 14:02:41 +0000 Cc: FreeBSD ARM , FreeBSD-Current , FreeBSD ports , NGie Cooper X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:54:57 -0000 Dimitry Andric writes: > > - Could a "MK_CLANG_ALL_TARGETS" or something similar option be > > added to src.opts.mk to fine tune this process for those of us who > > don't want to build a cross-compile toolchain every iteration for our > > target MACHINE/MACHINE_ARCH? > > I would be fine with something like this, as long as it is turned off by > default, or if it is only used for the bootstrap stages. It is actually > an extremely useful feature of clang that you can target multiple > architectures with one compiler binary. Point of information: this seems useful for developers, and (almost entirely) useless for everyone else. Are there other cohorts that want this badly? If that's correct, and there's a simple switch for configuration ... why should this default to what's useful for the (much?) smaller number of people? About what am I ignorant? Curiously, Robert Huff