On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > control: forwarded -1 http://gambaswiki.org/bugtracker/edit?object=BUG.8 > 35 > > Hi, unfortunately the bug report clearly shows that the features used > are not compatible with recent llvm > > "LLVM 3.6 decided to replace their old JIT API by a new incompatible > one, and so broke programs like Gambas that relied on them. > There is no solution at the moment." > > so, since we don't know how to patch, and the component is optional I > think I'll leave the current status quo, and maybe disable llvm on > gambas if you eventually want to remove it from Debian. generally when a project radically changes its API, the old version is maintained for some time (often years, think python 2.x and the old Linux kernels) llvm-3.5 is still an available package in stretch and jessie, wouldn't it be possible to have a specific dependency on llvm-3.5, until upstream point gb.jit to 3.6?
Ian
