On 5 October 2017 at 14:33, Michel Dänzer <mic...@daenzer.net> wrote: > On 05/10/17 12:19 PM, Emil Velikov wrote: >> From: Emil Velikov <emil.veli...@collabora.com> >> >> A while back Michel reported that LLVM has symbol versioning to avoid >> symbol collisions. Based on observations LLVM 5.0 is the first upstream >> version to actually has it. > > Not exactly. Adam Jackson originally added symbol versioning in LLVM 3.6 > (in SVN r214418), but it was only effective when LLVM was built with > autotools. As of 5.0, it's effective with cmake as well. > > Hmm that would explain it - the builds I've checked were using cmake :-( Any objections if I add that quote to the commit message?
>> Since symbol collisions do come up again and again (fortunately not so >> often) let's flip the switch back to static. > > It seems a bit weird to make this change now, that LLVM is solving the > issue for good. But I don't feel strongly about it. > I should have mentioned: Quick search suggests that LLVM 5.0 is available on: - Debian (testing/unstable) - Ubuntu (artful) - Arch - Gentoo Of which only Arch has it as "default". Even Fedora 27 (due in a couple of months) is shipping 4.0, seemingly. The future is bright, but we're not there yet. Thinking about it - I could add that as well to the commit message. -Emil _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
