2012/5/6 Michel Alexandre Salim <sali...@fedoraproject.org>: > Hi all, > > LLVM is becoming an increasingly integral part of our distribution > (with mesa now using it to build the LLVMpipe renderer, for example) > that I don't really feel comfortable maintaining it mostly by myself. > > I'd love to have some extra help here -- especially those with deep > C++ expertise; until we get LLVM's own libcxx packaged (it currently > only supports OS X), LLVM's clang C/C++/Obj-C/Objc-C++ compiler tends > to play catch-up with g++/libstdc++ in its C++11 support, and since > upstream does not support older branches post-release, it's normally > up to us to try and backport patches whenever GCC in a stable release > gets updated. > > Also, LLVM's packaging is currently not optimal -- > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=787187 -- even if you're > not interested in C++ support, you're more than welcome to help fix > other issues!
About packaging I can at least give some ideas. I completely redesigned the llvm package in Mandriva some months ago. See http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/llvm/current/SPECS/llvm.spec?view=markup "selling point" is using the Mandriva library policy, so it is possible, for example, to have installed at the same time libllvm3.0 and a possible libllvm3.1 in the near future. But the "choice" to give it major/minor 3.0 is not official... http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/llvm/current/SOURCES/llvm-3.0-soversion.patch?view=markup Also, libraries are installed in libdir, %_not %_libdir/llvm The advantage of building it with cmake is that llvm and clang packages are shared and a release build by default, and require like 6+ MB, while if built with %configure it will use like 250MB+ in a debug/static build to include everything. > TIA, > > - -- > Michel Alexandre Salim > Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/ > > Email: sali...@fedoraproject.org | GPG key ID: A36A937A > Jabber: hir...@jabber.ccc.de | IRC: hir...@irc.freenode.net > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments Paulo -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
