[Fedora-packaging] Self-hosting LLVM/Clang?

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On 10/26/2012 11:29 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 02:25:01PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 25/10/2012 19:07, Toshio Kuratomi ha scritto:
>>>>> Fedora's policy is to not depend on LLVM/Clang as much as
>>>>> possible, but
>>>>>>> would it be acceptable to use LLVM/Clang to compile
>>>>>>> newer LLVM and Clang releases?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think it's reasonable to allow llvm to bootstrap itself.
>>>>> 
>>> Does anyone know if there's any security features that gcc
>>> compiles in that would be important for clang/llvm?  Are there
>>> things other than clang/llvm that are using llvm?  (python had
>>> attempted to but then abandoned the idea).
>> 
>> Software rendering in Mesa (used by recent GNOME3 instead of
>> fallback mode).
>> 
> Thanks. For me, this would be a point in favor of compiling LLVM
> with gcc.
> 
Yes, that seems to be the safe choice. Thanks!


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