On Sonntag, 29. Juli 2018 22:36:43 CEST Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote: > Hi! As now qdoc has gained a dependency on llvm we noted that many Debian > ports will not be able to build it anymore, as llvm has (at least for now) > no support for them: > > <https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=llvm-toolchain-6.0&suite=sid > > > > I would like to know if there is any other place in Qt where it might start > requiring llvm to point porters (people behind those archs) where they will > be seeing more issues. > > It would also be pretty nice to know if there is a policy with respect the > llvm supported version. As they do not keep ABI compatibility distros > normally are forced to ship from two to three versions. As I understand the > idea in Debian testing/unstable is to have the latest two always available, > sometimes three of them. That already created some issues for us with Qt > Creator, as at some point it required a version which was about to be > removed. > > Please note that I am not objecting the use of llvm in any way, although it > would be real cool if they kept ABI... but that's not up to us to fix it I > guess. > You only need llvm for qdoc. You can probably remove qdoc on those platforms, and generate the platform independent documentation packages on hosts where it is supported.
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