On Thursday 26 February 2015 16:46:51 Tim Tassonis wrote: > On 26.02.2015 16:23, Armin K. wrote: > > On 02/26/2015 04:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Armin K. wrote: > >>> On 02/26/2015 10:55 AM, Tim Tassonis wrote: > >>>> Hi List > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> The recommended package for Mesa include: > >>>> > >>>> - LLVM-3.5.1 (required for Gallium3D r300 and radeonsi drivers..) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> What's not clear to me: does this mean i have to install llvm including > >>>> clang and Compiler RT, or is llvm alone sufficient? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Kind regards > >>>> Tim > >>> > >>> clang is listed as an optional download on llvm, meaning it's not > >>> required for anything. Where it can optionally be used, it's explicitly > >>> noted "(with clang)".>> > >> That's true, but if you are going to build llvm, you might as well do the > >> optional parts at the same time. The only reason I can think of to not > >> do the optional parts is if you are trying to build a minimal system.>> > >> -- Bruce > > > > It's not really a small package to build and cleang nearly doubles > > the build time so I can understand why people try to avoid it. > > > > Not everybody has latest hardware. > > Yes, it is required for some things, the BLFS page says "You will need > to remove r300 and radeonsi from the list if you did not install > elfutils and LLVM" > > Yes, and the reason I asked is that llvm and clang require quite a lot > of time and space (1.1 GB in the build directory), so I thought I might > avoid some of that, as I'm building in a moderate qemu vm. But anyway, I > build the whole llvm/clang stuff now. I try to build a rather minimal > system currently, but as a friend wants java and java requires cups and > X11 and Mesa, it suddenly turns out not-so small....
if It's a vm I guess you don't need radeon driver. So unless you wanted clover (OpenCL) llvm is not required EdB > > > Kind regards > Tim -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
