On Apr 2, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Robert N. M. Watson wrote: > On 2 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Warner Losh wrote: > >>> (2) Working clang/LLVM cross-compile of FreeBSD. This seems like a basic >>> requirement to adopt clang/LLVM, and as far as I'm aware that's not yet a >>> resolved issue? >> >> 0 work has been done here to my knowledge. The world view for clang and our >> in-tree gcc differ which makes it a challenge. > > That's disappointing. I seem to recall it's more an issue of our build > integration with clang/LLVM than an underlying issue in clang/LLVM?
Yes. The problem isn't hard, the cross compile paradigm is just a little different. >>> We (Cambridge) are currently bringing up FreeBSD on a new soft-core 64-bit >>> MIPS platform. We're already using a non-base gcc for our boot loader >>> work, and plan to move to using clang/LLVM later in the year. The base >>> system seems a bit short on detail when it comes to the above, currently. >> >> Yes. I've had to add about a dozen changes so far to get close to building >> with xdev compilers. A similar number are needed to make it easy to >> configure and add systree support, I think. > > Sounds like great progress -- do you think we'll ship 9.0 in a "just works" > state with regard to this? I sure hope so. I'd like to have demoable stuff by BSDcan. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
