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Date:      Sun, 22 May 2011 23:48:07 -0400
From:      Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        mdf@freebsd.org, "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Include file search path
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Hi Warner,

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 2, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Robert N. M. Watson wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Yes.  The problem isn't hard, the cross compile paradigm is just a little different.
>
>>>> 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?
>
> I sure hope so.  I'd like to have demoable stuff by BSDcan.
>
BSDCan has passed, has there been any advance made since that discussion ?

Thanks,
 - Arnaud



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