Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-13 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 13 March 2022 08:03:04 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > >> To the best of my knowledge, gcc can't currently handle Rust, so yes >> LLVM is needed. (Not Clang, because it isn't C :-) (Although Firefox >> probably also uses loads of C, so Clang would be needed for that.) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 13 March 2022 08:03:04 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > To the best of my knowledge, gcc can't currently handle Rust, so yes > LLVM is needed. (Not Clang, because it isn't C :-) (Although Firefox > probably also uses loads of C, so Clang would be needed for that.) And that's why we have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-13 Thread Wols Lists
On 12/03/2022 17:36, Dale wrote: I've sort of read about llvm and clang and I seem to recall things like Firefox needing them or something. I've just watched firefox emerging (yes I know, paint drying and all that :-), and there's loads of Rust code in there. To the best of my knowledge,

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-03-12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/03/2022 18:03, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2022-03-12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 12/03/2022 10:43, Dale wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/767700 Is that the one?  It mentions the target but I don't quite understand the why. 

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/03/2022 18:03, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2022-03-12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/03/2022 10:43, Dale wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/767700 Is that the one?  It mentions the target but I don't quite understand the why.  The biggest thing, will this break something if I let it do it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-12 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/03/2022 10:43, Dale wrote: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/767700 >> >> Is that the one?  It mentions the target but I don't quite understand >> the why.  The biggest thing, will this break something if I let it do >> it? > > No. Unlike GCC, LLVM/Clang is always a

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-03-12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/03/2022 10:43, Dale wrote: >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/767700 >> >> Is that the one?  It mentions the target but I don't quite understand >> the why.  The biggest thing, will this break something if I let it do >> it? > > No. Unlike GCC, LLVM/Clang

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-12 Thread Wols Lists
On 12/03/2022 14:22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/03/2022 10:43, Dale wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/767700 Is that the one?  It mentions the target but I don't quite understand the why.  The biggest thing, will this break something if I let it do it? No. Unlike GCC, LLVM/Clang is always a

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/03/2022 10:43, Dale wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/767700 Is that the one?  It mentions the target but I don't quite understand the why.  The biggest thing, will this break something if I let it do it? No. Unlike GCC, LLVM/Clang is always a cross-compiler. This just enables some extra