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Date:      Sat, 2 Apr 2011 20:10:00 +0100
From:      "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        mdf@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Include file search path
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On 2 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Warner Losh wrote:

>> (2) Working clang/LLVM cross-compile of FreeBSD.  This seems like a basic
>>   requirement to adopt clang/LLVM, and as far as I'm aware that's not yet a
>>   resolved issue?
> 
> 0 work has been done here to my knowledge.  The world view for clang and our in-tree gcc differ which makes it a challenge.

That's disappointing. I seem to recall it's more an issue of our build integration with clang/LLVM than an underlying issue in clang/LLVM?

>> We (Cambridge) are currently bringing up FreeBSD on a new soft-core 64-bit MIPS platform.  We're already using a non-base gcc for our boot loader work, and plan to move to using clang/LLVM later in the year.  The base system seems a bit short on detail when it comes to the above, currently.
> 
> Yes.  I've had to add about a dozen changes so far to get close to building with xdev compilers.  A similar number are needed to make it easy to configure and add systree support, I think.

Sounds like great progress -- do you think we'll ship 9.0 in a "just works" state with regard to this?

Robert

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