On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Aaron Bieber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Should have mentioned what the current hurdles are. So far the build > dies because of a few lacking items: > > 1) libunwind (needed for the GC, also I am told this is not a hard > requirement) > 2) lldb > For lldb to be ported, the llvm/clang versions should be kept in sync. I tried this a few years ago with matthew@, but we gave up since tehre were too many ifdef with the POSIX string functions. I do believe that the situation has improved a lot since then, since a ton of stuff has been ported from FreeBSD/NetBSD. IMHO, a pre-requisite for porting lldb is to sync the llvm port to the latest upstream release. I understand from reading the commits that Brad has joined long term clang porting effort and we have effectively forked llvm/clang to do our own stable long term compiler as referenced by Miod a few years ago. IMHO a different port of llvm/clang which follows latest upstream needs to be imported into the tree. Is it time for the current llvm/clang port to be imported into base but unlinked to the tree and make way for the latest llvm/clang port? Thanks
