Hi Warner, On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Robert N. M. Watson wrote: > >> On 2 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Warner Losh wrote: >> >>>> (2) Working clang/LLVM cross-compile of FreeBSD. This seems like a basic >>>> requirement to adopt clang/LLVM, and as far as I'm aware that's not yet a >>>> resolved issue? >>> >>> 0 work has been done here to my knowledge. The world view for clang and >>> our in-tree gcc differ which makes it a challenge. >> >> That's disappointing. I seem to recall it's more an issue of our build >> integration with clang/LLVM than an underlying issue in clang/LLVM? > > Yes. The problem isn't hard, the cross compile paradigm is just a little > different. > >>>> We (Cambridge) are currently bringing up FreeBSD on a new soft-core 64-bit >>>> MIPS platform. We're already using a non-base gcc for our boot loader >>>> work, and plan to move to using clang/LLVM later in the year. The base >>>> system seems a bit short on detail when it comes to the above, currently. >>> >>> Yes. I've had to add about a dozen changes so far to get close to building >>> with xdev compilers. A similar number are needed to make it easy to >>> configure and add systree support, I think. >> >> Sounds like great progress -- do you think we'll ship 9.0 in a "just works" >> state with regard to this? > > I sure hope so. I'd like to have demoable stuff by BSDcan. > BSDCan has passed, has there been any advance made since that discussion ?
Thanks, - Arnaud _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
