Re: LLVM Packaging Ideas for Fedora 41

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On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 5:59 AM Tom Stellard <tstellar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/27/24 05:57, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 5:53 AM Tom Stellard <tstellar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 4/26/24 21:58, Neal Gompa wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 9:35 PM Tom Stellard <tstellar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> After each Fedora release we do a retrospective with the LLVM package maintainers
> >>>> and talk about how we can improve the LLVM packages[1] in Fedora.  We've come up
> >>>> with some ideas for Fedora 41 that we'd like to share to raise awareness and
> >>>> get feedback.  Right now these are just ideas, and we plan to write up a formal
> >>>> change proposal once we have decided which of these we are going to implement:
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Here's some feedback below for each of these ideas.
> >>>
> >>>> * Spec file merge.  We plan to merge the clang, compiler-rt, and libomp packages
> >>>> in with llvm and have them be sub-packages of the llvm package.  This will allow
> >>>> us to use the build configuration recommended by upstream and also make it possible
> >>>> to optimize the packages using Profile-Guided Optimizations (PGO).
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Are these actually released together or are they separately developed
> >>> and lifecycled? If it's the latter, this would make things much more
> >>> complex down the road because you'll have to deal with a lot of the
> >>> weirdness that Nodejs deals with by having to subpackage with
> >>> different versions and trying to keep the release values coherent so
> >>> that every NVR of every subpackage is correctly unique. It's not worth
> >>> it in that case.
> >>>
> >>
> >> These projects are all part of the same git repository upstream.
> >>
> >
> > That doesn't actually matter from the perspective of Fedora. What
> > matters is if these components are versioned, released, and supported
> > together.
> >
>
> They are, this is main reason why they were put in the monorepo together.
>

Then the only tradeoff is that it makes the LLVM build take longer.
But if you're okay with that, then it's fine, I suppose.


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