Building clang in buildworld as part of the bootstrap process -- is it really necessary?

Hi all, One of the questions that came up from a co-worker is why do I need to build clang in buildworld if I already installed it from ports? I could see some valid reasons for doing this (one needs a cross-compiler, one might need specific options that might not be set in the ports version),

Re: Building clang in buildworld as part of the bootstrap process -- is it really necessary?

On Sep 5, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Garrett Cooper yaneurab...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, One of the questions that came up from a co-worker is why do I need to build clang in buildworld if I already installed it from ports? I could see some valid reasons for doing this (one needs a

Re: Building clang in buildworld as part of the bootstrap process -- is it really necessary?

tl;dr: NO. Makes sense. I'll do some poking around and see if things could potentially be optimized with the clang build. On beefy machines it's not a big deal, but as we know on machines without a ton of memory or SSDs, it can become painful, as expected. Thanks :)! -Garrett