rawhide report: 20141028 changes

[Michael Stahl]

On 28.10.2014 16:10, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-10-28 at 10:57 +0000, Fedora Rawhide Report wrote:
> 
>> [dragonegg]
>> 	dragonegg-3.4-0.3.rc0.fc21.i686 requires libLLVM-3.4.so
>> 	dragonegg-3.4-0.3.rc0.fc21.i686 requires gcc = 0:4.8.2-14.fc21
> 
> This one's a joy.  dragonegg is a gcc plugin that basically replaces the
> middle and back ends; gcc's parser, llvm's optimizers, llvm's code
> generators.  There's a dragonegg 3.5.0 to match llvm 3.5.0, but since
> gcc's plugin API is just as unstable as llvm's, it only supports through
> gcc 4.8.
> 
> But dragonegg is busted in F21 already, because (as above) it was built
> against gcc 4.8 and F21 is gcc 4.9.  Can we block or retire dragonegg?

honestly i wonder what the use-case for dragonegg is anyway... the other
way around (LLVM's user-friendly front-end and GCC's back-end generating
faster code) would be more interesting...

does it have actual real-world users?