On 01/27/2016 10:25 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2016 11:26, "Neal Gompa" <ngomp...@gmail.com > <mailto:ngomp...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Adam Jackson <a...@redhat.com > <mailto:a...@redhat.com>> wrote: >> > LLVM upstream is (eventually) dropping their autotools build system in >> > favor of their cmake buildsystem. This wouldn't normally be something >> > you'd notice, but the two produce different sets of shared libraries, >> > autotools gave you one big libLLVM and cmake gives you lots of >> > individual libraries. >> > >> > This means the llvm consumers need to be relinked against the new set >> > of libs, and that's grinding its way through koji now. Hopefully those >> > will all complete before the next rawhide compose, but arm might hold >> > us back a bit. >> > >> > On the plus side, this makes it possible to actually build lldb, clang, >> > and compiler-rt independently of the llvm core. This is a huge win from >> > my perspective because I absolutely do not care about clang and want >> > never again to get any bugs about it. If you're someone who does care >> > about one of those subprojects, they could use maintainers. >> > >> > - ajax >> >> Aren't clang, lldb, and compiler-rt still part of the main LLVM >> package sources, though? It would make sense to continue building them >> as part of the LLVM package since they ship together > > This only makes sense if the packager cares about it. Ajax has no > interest in the clang part and if people are depending on it they need > to step up.
I think Rust will (eventually) want compiler-rt for its unbundling: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=915043#c25 So I'm willing to help as a maintainer for this, if needed. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
