On Sat, Mar 28, 2015, at 12:52 PM, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> 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

I am not too familiar with other things that require llvm/clang - but
for sure CoreCLR is currently targeting llvm/clang 3.5.

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