Hi Don, Am 05.11.19 um 19:02 schrieb Don Lewis: > On 5 Nov, Peter Kovacs wrote: >> what if we require LLVM as build requirement and build OpenOffice only >> with LLVM instead of preinstalled gcc? >> >> the project provides packages for Windows, Linux (And here RHEL 7.4) and >> mac. Cygwin offers Version 8.01 >> >> Debian offers also LLVM as Version 8. >> >> It would just work around the issue we currently face, while increasing >> the build requirements only by little. > That's not likely to be helpful. Mixing an application built with LLVM > with system C++ libraries compiled with gcc is likely to fail. It is > best to use the same compiler for everything. Also, using a non-default > compiler would require the user to install the matching C++ runtime > libraries. > > What set me on this quest was trying to build 4.1.7 with gcc on > FreeBSD/powerpc, where LLVM is not quite ready for prime time. > > Either compiler can generally be persuaded to work. In C++98 mode, LLVM > can use it's regular C++ STL headers, whereas GCC needs to use the boost > TR1 headers for STL. In C++11 mode, either compiler can use the C++ STL > headers, but our code isn't quite ready for C++11, and we can't yet make > the changes for C++11 that are not compatible with the older compilers > on some platforms. > >> We have to drop CentOS6 support completely, as a price, but I think this >> is already decided. > Dropping support for CentOS 6 for 4.2.x would be nice for a couple of > reasons. GCC on CentOS 6 doesn't support C++11, and CentOS 6 is our > last platform that doesn't have the new gstreamer. But if we don't > support CentOS 6 for 4.2.x, then we probably need to extend support for > 4.1.x.
To my knowledge we build 4.2.x on CentOS 7. 4.1.x is still built on CentOS 5. Regards, Matthias >> I could not figure out if OS/2 can use LLVM. @Yuri do you think that >> would be fine for the OS/2 development? >> >> It would simplify things a lot, and we can jump up the standard requirement. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >
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