Hah! I actually maintained Arch Linux packages for LinuxCNC in the AUR! I switched to Gentoo years ago and never looked back!
So QtPyVCP can find everything through pip if need be? As for Clang vs. GCC, AMD uses an internal fork of Clang as their own compiler (AOCC) and I actually have an ebuild for that as well. Problem is, AMD builds AOCC against an ancient version of Glibc and they link to libomp (LLVM's OpenMP library) and libc++ all stupid.. Building Clang from source actually works out better for me as nothing is under-linked compared to their compiler. I managed to build 99% of my Gentoo system with AOCC but I had to get crafty with CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS with so many packages that I eventually realized it was too much effort with not really much to gain. LLVM/Clang 14.0.6 probably has a lot of the performance fixes for Ryzen from AOCC included, and if not, it'll probably land in 17.0.0. My Gentoo systems are so hardened though (kernel and userland) that any performance benefit from AOCC specifically would probably be outweighed by my security enhancements.. The LLVM stack also follows a more modern code base, and a much easier to use and better build system thanks to CMake. If it compiles and runs with Clang, Clang it is! AMD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Android all use Clang btw, and the OpenBSD devs especially know what they're doing. List of packages I've discovered that I've personally discovered with Clang: Anything with gcc.conf next to it has problems: https://github.com/NTULINUX/gentoo_backup/blob/master/etc/portage/package.env Then for libsoundtouch, I just added `-fopenmp=libomp` to CXXFLAGS to solve a problem compiling Audacity with Clang. Only problem right now is that my LinuxCNC Ryzen test rig doesn't detect the parallel port card. I'm going to try a few things with the PCI stack and IOMMU to try and get it sorted out. I don't expect this to be a big issue unless BIOS/UEFI is just too dumb to recognize it. I appreciate your interest in this project! Alec _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
