Hi, I'm Andrius Morkūnas from Lithuania. My Summer of Code proposal was accepted this year and be working on my project, which is to make clang and ports to be friendly with each other. My main goals are: * Create an easy way to set ports compiler to either clang or gcc (and no, CC=clang is not a good way to do that). * Write a tool to detect common problems with individual ports not respecting environment variables like CC/CXX or doing other horrible things that break compilation with clang. * Make Gnome, KDE, Xorg and other widely used things to work with clang.
I've been patching ports to work with clang since last October, so I know my way around the ports tree by now. What's different in GSoC project, compared to what I usually do is that I have specific goals to achieve now, rather than fixing random things when I feel like it. More information will be available on FreeBSD wiki[1] later (some is already there). I've seen a lot of people interested in building ports with clang, especially now, that rdivacky@ has finally announced ClangBSD testing[2]. However, ClangBSD and ports compiled with clang are two completely different things, so I don't recommend trying to use clang for ports just yet. I've even posted a mail to freebsd-current@ recently, asking people not to do it[3]. However I intend to write a howto in FreeBSD wiki sometime soon explaining how to build ports with clang more safely, what to expect and what not to expect. It will also include some information for those who want to help us with clang and/or ports, explaining what help we do or don't want. At some point during summer I'll probably ask people to start testing stuff, and report problems, so stay tuned. If you have any questions, suggestions, or some other feedback, feel free to mail me on or off list. [1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/SOC2010AndriusMorkunas [2] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-April/016648.html [3] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-April/016990.html -- Andrius _______________________________________________ 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"
