LLVM 3.5 rebase

[Sergio Pascual]

2014-10-17 16:00 GMT+02:00 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Yep, this again.  I'm just as thrilled as you are.  3.5 is necessary for
> > proper ppc64le support, as well as some minor radeonsi features in Mesa.
>
> And massively improved aarch64 support
>
> > One problem this time around appears to be python-llvmpy, which appears
> > to have decided that llvm 3.2/3.3 are the only versions it will support:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/llvmpy/llvmpy/commit/1e141931b874dd0bc3d8e9d801b949939430ad4e
> >
> > We're already shipping it built against 3.4, so that's truly charming.
> > I'm open to suggestions here.
>
> It doesn't look, with a basic repoquery test, that anything in the
> core distro needs python-llvmpy so my general feeling is to query
> upstream to see what their intentions are regarding support of newer
> releases and if they don't intend to keep up then just drop
> python-llvmpy at least for the time being unless the Fedora maintainer
> plans to fix it RSN.
>


I initially had intentions to package numba, and other pyhton goodies that
depend
on python-llvmpy, but I haven't worked on it on a very long time.

So I'm OK with retiring python-llvmpy if a patch doesn't appear soon.
in the tracking bug for 3.5
https://github.com/llvmpy/llvmpy/issues/106

Sergio
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