Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: CompilerPolicy Change

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Dne 05. 06. 20 v 9:52 Kevin Kofler napsal(a):
> Ben Cotton wrote:
>> == Summary ==
>> Fedora has historically forced packages to build with GCC unless the
>> upstream project for the package only supported Clang/LLVM.  This
>> change proposal replaces that policy with one where compiler selection
>> for Fedora follows the package's upstream preferences.
>>
>> == Owner ==
>> * Name: Jeff Law
>> * Email: law@xxxxxxxxxx
> I am opposed to this change. Chromium and Firefox build fine with GCC. I 
> think that a distribution should be built with a consistent toolchain 
> wherever possible.
>
> Last I checked, there were several reasons why GCC is preferred over 
> Clang/LLVM in Fedora. And if that should ever change (or have changed 
> already), then switching the systemwide default (reversing the rules, i.e., 
> using GCC only for those packages that do not build with Clang) should be 
> envisioned. But as far as I know, that is not the case at this time, 
> considering runtime performance, security features, etc.
>
> I do not see why we should allow yet another special case for Firefox, nor 
> why we should let random packages make their own choice of compiler and risk 
> running into hidden binary incompatibilities. We have a system compiler for 
> a reason.


Just FTR, there are technical (and security) reasons why we might
consider switching Ruby from GCC to Clang in the future:


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1721553


Vít


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