Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge and some don't. Speaking of which: Is it Policy or just habit to use GCC over Clang? I

Re: building against Clang

2014-10-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge and some don't. Speaking of which: Is it Policy or

Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge and some don't.

Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Gert Wollny
On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 17:02 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: doxygen (and a very few others) links against libclang1-3.5 where available according to the changelog, ... libllvm3.5 is also used for another few, including mesa. It's not so much a question whether these packages are compiled

Re: building against Clang

2014-10-29 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 29/10/2014 17:02, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge and some don't. Speaking of which: Is it

Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jonas Smedegaard: Speaking of which: Is it Policy or just habit to use GCC over Clang? Well, when Debian was started, clang didn't even exist – also, for a long time it wasn't compatible with quite a few GCCisms in our sources and/or rules files. -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To

Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Speaking of which: Is it Policy or just habit to use GCC over Clang? gcc still generates better machine code than clang in the *general* case for C source (I don't know about the rest). There is no policy to use gcc: if your program builds better

Re: building against Clang (was: Legitimate exercise of...)

2014-10-29 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 05:02:11PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-10-28 17:20:02) at debian-vote@l.d.o For the compiler, all of Debian is built with GCC, but some teams do test builds with Clang and report bugs, which most maintainers merge and some don't.