Re: [gentoo-dev] Clang/LLVM profile

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

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> Honestly, I think this is pretty on-topic for gentoo-dev given a lot of us
> are quite interested in this.
^ this

> - I'm not sure why you would need virtual/toolchain or virtual/binutils
> unless it's just for usage within bootstrapping scripts? Seems more like
> you could just remove gcc from @system and such?
^ this too

FWIW, a minimal chroot (corresponding to a stage3) rebuilds quite nicely with 
clang, with one exception (sys-libs/glibc obviously).

Being able to build glibc with clang is seen as a desirable long-term goal by 
glibc upstream, seems to be nontrivial to implement though.

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer 
(council, qa, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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