Den 06/01/2013 kl. 18.25 skrev "O. Hartmann" <[email protected]>:

>> In contrast, LLVM changes the ABI (and API!) significantly between point 
>> releases.  We therefore don't want to encourage anything outside of the base 
>> system to link against these libraries, because doing so would prevent us 
>> from importing a new LLVM release every six months - we'd either need to 
>> ship 4 copies of LLVM by an x.3 release, or stick with the one that we 
>> shipped in x.0.
> 
> Indeed, this is a serious point and the developer of LLVM has to be
> blamed for that.

You can't seriously blame LLVM for making progress. If ports rely on a specific 
version of LLVM, it would be far better to create devel/llvm31, devel/llvm32 
etc.

Erik
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