Seeking primary maintainer for LLVM

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Feb 28 18:44:38 UTC 2013


Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
> - - Refactorig LLVM's build system to properly use versioned shared
> objects. I note that other distributions, and BSD, are still using
> static linking, so we appear to be the only ones attempting to package
> LLVM properly.

And FYI, this is not just a matter of guidelines. Static LLVM also breaks 
when you have multiple libraries all using LLVM being linked together, e.g. 
OpenGTL and Mesa. Fedora switching to shared LLVM fixed those symbol 
conflicts, so going back to static is not an option.

        Kevin Kofler



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