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Date:      Tue, 31 May 2011 10:23:40 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.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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On May 22, 2011, at 9:48 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:

> Hi Warner,
>=20
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>=20
>> On Apr 2, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Robert N. M. Watson wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 2 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>=20
>>>>> (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?
>>>>=20
>>>> 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.
>>>=20
>>> 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?
>>=20
>> Yes.  The problem isn't hard, the cross compile paradigm is just a =
little different.
>>=20
>>>>> 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.
>>>>=20
>>>> 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.
>>>=20
>>> Sounds like great progress -- do you think we'll ship 9.0 in a "just =
works" state with regard to this?
>>=20
>> I sure hope so.  I'd like to have demoable stuff by BSDcan.
>>=20
> BSDCan has passed, has there been any advance made since that =
discussion ?

It is "demonstrable" but not ready to commit to the tree.  Needs about 4 =
hours of work that I've had trouble scheduling on it due to work getting =
busier than I expected.

Warner




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