Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2020 07:02:43 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=llvm=90 ignored? Message-ID: <20201205150243.GA13965@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4F024E2C-3657-4FB9-A55B-6FA445EDD21B@yahoo.com> References: <4F024E2C-3657-4FB9-A55B-6FA445EDD21B.ref@yahoo.com> <4F024E2C-3657-4FB9-A55B-6FA445EDD21B@yahoo.com>
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On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 01:18:34AM -0800, Mark Millard wrote: > Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu wrote on: > > > > Well, I guess that pretty much kills LLVM_DEFAULT for any > > modern hardware (even a 8 year old laptop) that uses drm > > unless a user wants base-system llvm, llvm90, and llvm10 > > installed. One will certainly be able to compile any > > c/c++ thrown ones way. > > LLVM's API seems to be unstable enough from LLVM release to > LLVM release that maintaining many-release build compatibility > for projects using the LLVM API is not all that common. I'm well aware the llvm API instability, which comes back to the irrelevance of LLVM_DEFAULT. Someday llvm may get it's act together. -- Steve
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