On 2014-Oct-11 Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2015, at 14:05, Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj at riseup.net
> > wrote:
> >
> > AFAIK if there had been such plans, they were dropped long ago. The
> > reasoning it can't be done (at least for now) is that versions 3.5.0+
> > require C++11-capable stack and that would break upgrades from 9-STABLE
> > (if the user still uses GCC, as is by default). So, LLVM in stable/10
> > will probably be upgraded when stable/9 goes EOL.
>
>
> If stable/10 had clang 3.5 or higher, you could still upgrade from
> stable/9. It would only require you to do the upgrade in two steps:
>
> * Rebuild and reinstall your stable/9 world using WITH_CLANG,
> WITH_CLANG_IS_CC, and WITH_LIBCPLUSPLUS. This will install clang
> 3.4.1 and libc++, and make clang the default compiler.
> * Checkout stable/10 (or even head), and build/install it in the regular
> fashion.
>
> I am personally not against merging newer llvm/clang versions into
> stable/10. But the "silent agreement" has always been that you could
> upgrade easily from the latest stable/X to stable/X+1, and the above
> two-step process breaks that, or at least makes it more complicated.
>
> Last but not least, note that this would only apply to the architectures
> that *can* actually build clang 3.4.1 and libc++ on stable/9. This is
> currently limited to x86, little-endian arm and powerpc (64 bit, I'm
> unsure about 32 bit).
>
> -Dimitry
lib/csu/powerpc64/Makefile in head has updates and comments (2015-Feb-05 or so)
about "powerpc64 csu needs to be built by gcc, so enforce that". It is tied to
clang not supporting -mlongcall and "testing shows a clang linked with a [#]
clang-built csu segfaults". The forcing of gcc use in head looks like:
CC:= gcc
COMPILER_TYPE:= gcc
which is not in stable/10's variant.
stable/10 has a lib/csu/powerpc64/Makefile that does not force gcc but still
has:
CFLAGS+= -I${.CURDIR}/../common \
-I${.CURDIR}/../../libc/include \
-mlongcall
and so has -mlongcall in use on the command lines. Unless -mlongcall support
used to be in place for clang and was later removed, a rebuilding of FreeBSD 9
or 10 that includes a lib/csu/powerpc64/ rebuild likely fails to build under
WITH_CLANG_IS_CC.
I'm not sure about going all the way back to FreeBSD 9 but this suggests that
clang was for some time --and recently has been-- insufficient on its own for
reliable(?) powerpc64 builds (2015-Feb-05). It may be best to consider
powerpc64 omitted from the "clang 3.4.1 and libc++" list in that last paragraph
given the "upgrade easily" context intended.
(If there is an easy powerpc64 upgrade then I'd like to see notes about it:
Other contexts might be able to use similar techniques. I started my
explorations with 10.)
===
Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net
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