On May 22, 2011, at 9:48 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > 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 ?
It is "demonstrable" but not ready to commit to the tree. Needs about 4 hours of work that I've had trouble scheduling on it due to work getting busier than I expected. Warner _______________________________________________ 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"