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Date:      Sat, 5 Dec 2020 11:05:09 -0800
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=llvm=90 ignored?
Message-ID:  <A2DA2370-17AA-427C-817D-D8E692410C3B@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20201205150243.GA13965@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On 2020-Dec-5, at 07:02, Steve Kargl <sgk at =
troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 01:18:34AM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
>> Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote on:
>>>=20
>>> Well, I guess that pretty much kills LLVM_DEFAULT for any
>>> modern hardware (even a 8 year old laptop) that uses drm
>>> unless a user wants base-system llvm, llvm90, and llvm10=20
>>> installed.  One will certainly be able to compile any
>>> c/c++ thrown ones way.
>>=20
>> LLVM's API seems to be unstable enough from LLVM release to
>> LLVM release that maintaining many-release build compatibility
>> for projects using the LLVM API is not all that common.
>=20
> I'm well aware the llvm API instability, which comes back
> to the irrelevance of LLVM_DEFAULT.  Someday llvm may get
> it's act together.

I frequently have LLVM set to more recent than the
from-svn /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk
indicates, for other reasons than minimizing the
number of LLVM builds/installs. Seems to work fine
for such in my limited context.

=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)




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