Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:59:06 +0100 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src.conf question Message-ID: <op.wp8xosbu8527sy@pinky> In-Reply-To: <20130101064416.559896f0@dell64> References: <20130101064416.559896f0@dell64>
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On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:44:16 +0100, Robert <traveling08@cox.net> 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
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