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Date:      Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:27:15 -0400
From:      matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com>
To:        "Shaowei Wang (wsw)" <wsw1wsw2@gmail.com>
Cc:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: llvm/clang a tool chain or just a compiler for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <28283d910907211827o3189760y6531f9cebb081adf@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Shaowei Wang (wsw) <wsw1wsw2@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:34:29PM +0800, Shaowei Wang (wsw) wrote:
> > > Hi, hackers!
> > >
> > > Recently I am playing the clangbsd i386 branch and it works. I've
> noticed
> > > that clang using gcc to linking object code or even doing assembling.
> > >
> > > clang from FreeBSD perspective will be a whole compiler tool chain or
> > just
> > > another C/C++ compiler (may using system's [GNU]as and [GNU]ld) ?
> >
> > llvm people are working on "mc" which is a native assembler/dissasembler.
> > so the only part of the toolchain missing will be linker... now we
> > need as/ld (and gnu driver that knows how to talk to them)
>
>
> So what's the direction? Are we going to cut off all the GNU compiler tool
> chains and use the llvm/clang when it's mature.
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > roman
> >
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Well I did build 8.0-Beta2 with clang the latest svn though seems to have
broke the usb compile for me. Most likely due to a commit that was done but
clang is pretty mature to compile most things but for now I just have
CC=/usr/bin/gcc in my make.conf to build ports



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