From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 1 18:59:10 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0D2B2C for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:59:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smarthost1.greenhost.nl (smarthost1.greenhost.nl [195.190.28.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE478FC0C for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:59:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.greenhost.nl ([213.108.104.138]) by smarthost1.greenhost.nl with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tq73L-0007Qk-Hb for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:59:07 +0100 Received: from h253044.upc-h.chello.nl ([62.194.253.44] helo=pinky) by smtp.greenhost.nl with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Tq73L-0008HP-Lm for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:59:07 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src.conf question References: <20130101064416.559896f0@dell64> Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:59:06 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Ronald Klop" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20130101064416.559896f0@dell64> User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.12 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamav at smarthost1.samage.net X-Spam-Level: / X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Scan-Signature: 919fae14bc17c74543a025539baad412 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:59:10 -0000 On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:44:16 +0100, Robert wrote: > Greetings > > I will be upgrading my main desktop system from 8-stable to 9-stable > this week and am quite confused with regards to Clang vs GCC. I have > complete backups and will be doing a complete re-install. > > I have seen several different examples of what to put > into /etc/src.conf and /etc/make.conf and am not sure if it is safe or > even advisable to make the move to Clang for source and ports. > > Can someone help with this? > > Thanks in advance > > Robert Clang in 9 works, but is not officially supported. If you are not sure I advise you to do the upgrade using the supported methods as described in /usr/src/UPDATING or the handbook[1]. After upgrading you can always change the default compiler to clang[2] and play with it from a known working state. Ronald. [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html [2] http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang