On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:27:49PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > There's something I've been pondering for a while, along with some > > other folks - it might be useful to do a "jessie and a half" release, > > similarly to what we did in the etch days. That's *basically* just > > like a normal jessie release, but with a few key updates: > > > > * backports kernel > > * rebuilt d-i to match that kernel > > * X drivers > > * ... (other things that might be needed for consistency) > > > > all rolled up with a small installer image build (netinst, maybe DVD#1). > > > > A lot of arm64 machine users would benefit from this, and maybe owners > > of very recent amd64 machines too, with better support for things on > > the Skylake platform. Those are the only two architectures I'm > > thinking of supporting at this point. > > > > Is anybody else interested in helping? Thoughts/comments? > > Sorry to bump an old thread.... > > Please consider moving to Clang 3.8 or 4.0 as the LLVM front end for > the platform. > > Clang 3.5 and 3.6 are no longer maintained. The bugs we are > discovering and reporting are being closed as "invalid" and "won't > fix" because Clang is outside its freshness date. > > Also pick up this for glibc: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17775390/clang-3-3-in-c1y-mode-cannot-parse-cstdio-header/17776548#17776548 > . Though it was first seen in Clang 3.3, its still a problem today. > > Jeff >
Hi Jeff, Actually, good timing to bump the thread! Gianfranco has backported LLVM and Clang 3.8. Cheers, Nicholas
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