Fedora 16 Update: llvm-2.9-2.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-10189
2011-08-02 20:48:21
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Name        : llvm
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 2.9
Release     : 2.fc16
URL         : http://llvm.org/
Summary     : The Low Level Virtual Machine
Description :
LLVM is a compiler infrastructure designed for compile-time,
link-time, runtime, and idle-time optimization of programs from
arbitrary programming languages.  The compiler infrastructure includes
mirror sets of programming tools as well as libraries with equivalent
functionality.

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Update Information:

This updates F-16's LLVM to version 2.9, and rebuilds dependent packages for the soname change.

LLVM:
- Update to 2.9
- Depend on libffi to allow the LLVM interpreter to call external functions
- Build with RTTI enabled, needed by e.g. Rubinius (# 722714)
- Fix multilib installation
- Fix incorrect platform-specific include path on i686

Pure:
- Build with proper optimization flags (# 694565)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #694785 - update to 2.9
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694785
  [ 2 ] Bug #699416 - llvm-devel not parallel installable - packaging issue
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699416
  [ 3 ] Bug #722714 - LLVM built with -fno-rtti
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722714
  [ 4 ] Bug #694565 - pure 0.47-1 not built with $RPM_OPT_FLAGS
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694565
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update llvm' at the command line.
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