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Date:      Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:56:27 +0200
From:      Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, John Hein <jhein@timing.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: Final sanity pass: xdev
Message-ID:  <20090329065627.GA4994@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <49CEC2C0.3020902@telenix.org>
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On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 08:37:20PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
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> I was going to ask in ports about this, but you folks really sound like you know
>  the llvm tool a whole lot better, and if, in answering my question, you
> happened to answer things like benchmark results and if it makes good kernels,
> well, you wouldn't hear me complaining.
> 
> Anyhow, my question regards the llvm-devel port.  The install phase wants to
> build python26.  Is that because the author of the port likes python26, or would
> it really work if I used my presently available python25?  I could fix my
> makefile, if it'd work ok, but I need to understand why our llvm port needs
> python26, before I shoot myself in the foot.

the llvm/clang ships with a compiler driver that is written in python, the
driver is being replaced by a C++ one. the C++ one currently works "just fine".
expect the python dependency to be removed in a near future

roman



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