Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:39:38 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Erwin Lansing <erwin@freebsd.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@yandex.ru> Subject: Re: Compiling ports in a post-9.0-RELEASE world Message-ID: <20110316093938.GB12965@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110316091948.GZ46044@droso.net> References: <4D7BED01.6000506@FreeBSD.org> <696141300213240@web70.yandex.ru> <20110316091948.GZ46044@droso.net>
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:19:48AM +0100, Erwin Lansing wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:20:40PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > > > > > > 13.03.2011, 01:00, "Doug Barton" <dougb@FreeBSD.org>: > > > Howdy, > > > > > > As many of you are no doubt already aware, much work has been undertaken > > > to make clang the default compiler for the src tree starting with > > > 9.0-RELEASE. It is not 100% certain that this change will be made, but > > > it's looking more likely every day. > > > > > > This raises an interesting question for how to deal with compiling ports > > > after 9.0 is released. So far there are 2 main ideas for how to deal > > > with this: > > > > > > 1. Fix all ports to compile with both gcc 4.2 (for RELENG_[78]) and clang. > > > 2. Adopt an official "ports compiler," which would likely be one of the > > > gcc versions from the ports tree itself, and update all ports to work > > > with it. > > > > 3. Fix Clang to compile more ports > > > Note that these 3 are not mutually exclusive. The clang developers have > been very responsive on earlier bugs we found and they are usually fixed > quickly, so I'm sure that if real bugs in clang are found they will be > happy to hear about them. Fixing ports to work with both gcc and clang > should also be a good target to reach for, but given the amount of ports > this is unrealistic to be finished before 9.0 is released. What will happen to ports in non-clang arches (sparc64, ia64) after 9.0R? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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