Re: Heads up: LLVM repackaging in F24

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On 01/27/2016 10:25 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 
> On Jan 27, 2016 11:26, "Neal Gompa" <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:ajax@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> > LLVM upstream is (eventually) dropping their autotools build system in
>> > favor of their cmake buildsystem. This wouldn't normally be something
>> > you'd notice, but the two produce different sets of shared libraries,
>> > autotools gave you one big libLLVM and cmake gives you lots of
>> > individual libraries.
>> >
>> > This means the llvm consumers need to be relinked against the new set
>> > of libs, and that's grinding its way through koji now. Hopefully those
>> > will all complete before the next rawhide compose, but arm might hold
>> > us back a bit.
>> >
>> > On the plus side, this makes it possible to actually build lldb, clang,
>> > and compiler-rt independently of the llvm core. This is a huge win from
>> > my perspective because I absolutely do not care about clang and want
>> > never again to get any bugs about it. If you're someone who does care
>> > about one of those subprojects, they could use maintainers.
>> >
>> > - ajax
>>
>> Aren't clang, lldb, and compiler-rt still part of the main LLVM
>> package sources, though? It would make sense to continue building them
>> as part of the LLVM package since they ship together
> 
> This only makes sense if the packager cares about it. Ajax has no
> interest in the clang part and if people are depending on it they need
> to step up.

I think Rust will (eventually) want compiler-rt for its unbundling:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=915043#c25

So I'm willing to help as a maintainer for this, if needed.
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