Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:11:35 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling ports in a post-9.0-RELEASE world Message-ID: <4D80E137.9040808@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110316093938.GB12965@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <4D7BED01.6000506@FreeBSD.org> <696141300213240@web70.yandex.ru> <20110316091948.GZ46044@droso.net> <20110316093938.GB12965@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On 03/16/2011 02:39 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:19:48AM +0100, Erwin Lansing wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:20:40PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: >>> >>> >>> 13.03.2011, 01:00, "Doug Barton"<dougb@FreeBSD.org>: >>>> Howdy, >>>> >>>> As many of you are no doubt already aware, much work has been undertaken >>>> to make clang the default compiler for the src tree starting with >>>> 9.0-RELEASE. It is not 100% certain that this change will be made, but >>>> it's looking more likely every day. >>>> >>>> This raises an interesting question for how to deal with compiling ports >>>> after 9.0 is released. So far there are 2 main ideas for how to deal >>>> with this: >>>> >>>> 1. Fix all ports to compile with both gcc 4.2 (for RELENG_[78]) and clang. >>>> 2. Adopt an official "ports compiler," which would likely be one of the >>>> gcc versions from the ports tree itself, and update all ports to work >>>> with it. >>> >>> 3. Fix Clang to compile more ports >>> >> Note that these 3 are not mutually exclusive. The clang developers have >> been very responsive on earlier bugs we found and they are usually fixed >> quickly, so I'm sure that if real bugs in clang are found they will be >> happy to hear about them. Fixing ports to work with both gcc and clang >> should also be a good target to reach for, but given the amount of ports >> this is unrealistic to be finished before 9.0 is released. > > What will happen to ports in non-clang arches (sparc64, ia64) after 9.0R? This is a good reason that number 2 above is likely a necessary step regardless of what other work is done. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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