于 2019年10月27日 GMT+08:00 下午4:44:59, Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de>
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>Hello Jiaxun,
>
>Am 27.10.19 um 05:46 schrieb Jiaxun Yang:
>> Upstream had replaced boost::context to a built-in libcontext library
>in
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1658249, so libboost-context in
>dependency
>> should be dropped.
>
>ah, thanks for the pointing. I'm not following the development of KiCad
>
>in these specific parts that regularly so I haven't seen this change by
>
>myself. And most users are not using mips* hardware. :-)
>
>> Also, after we upgrade to GLM-0.9.9.6 in sid, GCC build is possible
>again, thus clang is
>> no longer required too.
>>
>> After drop these two dependencies, we can now trigger a success build
>on mips64el platform.
>
>For now I'm feeling comfortable to stay with clang as compiler suite
>for
>unstable/testing and buster. We gain nothing if we switch back to gcc.
>
Thanks for your quick response!
Clang on MIPS appears to be very unstable, guys from MIPS are already trying to
improve it but I won't expect to see any improvement in next two major versions.
GCC is still the most robust compiler especially on some unpopular
architectures.
>I've started a test build on a mips64el porter box and it looks good so
>
>far. But I'll wait until the release of 5.1.6 before pushing a new
>version to the archive. Should be not that far away.
--
Jiaxun Yang
