David Terei <d...@davidterei.com> writes: > Late to the conversation sorry. > > I think this sounds like a good plan. Given we are planning to stick > with a vanilla LLVM but just fix the version, it seems it should make > it reasonable to have distro’s support this. We can provide binaries > easily, but also just a declaration that llvm-3.4 is the current > supported version, so please package that and tell GHC where to find > it.
Agreed. > We already do this in a weak way by checking which version of LLVM the > user is using and issuing a warning when it’s one we don’t support. > > The other aspect that would be very useful is if all the build > machines tested with LLVM as well. It’s a lot of work to support LLVM > across all the platforms we support and to track changes across both > communities. Automated testing of the currently supported LLVM version > and LLVM-HEAD would be great. Absolutely, this would be amazing. I generally don't find out about regressions due to LLVM until I have time to build and test a snapshot which doesn't happen nearly as often as I would like. Cheers, - Ben
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