On 02/15/2012 10:38 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > We're already building at least one package (hfsplus-tools) with llvm > because it relies on non-standard C extensions that gcc doesn't support, > and I believe the current software rasteriser in mesa depends on it. In > terms of it being the general compiler - it needs to work on all the > architectures we care about, it needs to have a level of maintenance in > Fedora at least as good as gcc, it needs to build better code than gcc > and (most importantly) it needs somebody to actually take responsibility > for proving all of that and making the transition happen. > Not to mention that the kernel devs use gcc to compile the kernel - and it most certainly puts a lot of pressure on the compiler. I suspect unless linus drops gcc as well, we'll at a minimum need to keep it to build the kernel itself. gene -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
