On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > So I think it's fair to say that neither GCC nor LLVM are going away anytime > soon, both having their respective niches. Because of this I'm wondering if > we should be adding LLVM to oe-core (taking the meta-oe recipes). GCC will > still be the cross-compiler used but LLVM will be available out of the box, > for example the Gallium LLVM-based Mesa drivers can be enabled without > requiring meta-oe. > > Anyone have thoughts/comments/objections?
I agree; I think it is a valuable addition and worth having it as it is indeed becoming more and more commonly used. Besides, having it enabled in our autobuilders will also greatly improve code quality as LLVM is sometimes more picky than GCC. In Debian the exercise of rebuilding the whole archive using LLVM has been very useful and has identified several code issues which has been (or are in the process of being) fixed. Also to add on that, I think the sooner it is done the better so we can solve issues early on the release cycle. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
