On 2025/09/07 09:05, Sebastien Marie wrote: > Brandon Mercer <bmer...@eutonian.com> writes: > > >> I see that, but how important is it to have zig 0.15 instead of > >> 0.14? > > > > At this point in the development, 0.15 is a rather large change over > > 0.14. > > > > I've been thinking over this a lot today, and all I can think is that if > > we have any other users who are tracking zig... leaving 0.15 out is going > > to make it even harder to get to 0.16. > > > > zig 0.15 is latest release. as zig is still no stabilised (no 1.0), > there is huge breaking changes between releases. > > as soon you need to use zig compiler, you need either zig HEAD or latest > release. keeping 0.14 has only poor value now that 0.15 is released. > > currently, lang/zig is ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=amd64 arm64 powerpc64 (and > powerpc64 is marked BROKEN). > > would be possible to update lang/zig to 0.15 (using MODCLANG_VERSION=20) > and keep devel/llvm/20 not linked (n o SUBDIR+=20 in devel/llvm/Makefile) ? > so only amd64 and arm64 will build devel/llvm/20 ?
it must be linked to the build, but devel/llvm/20 could have ONLY_FOR_ARCHS set.