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 cross-compiler. This just > enables some extra targets. It won't actually affect anything other > than perhaps the binaries becoming a bit larger. > > >
I'm doing this in a chroot so it is recoverable if it was a problem but now I know it's OK to do on my main install. I still find it odd but if it is needed and there is a reason for it, sounds good to me. If this were a bad thing tho, this is why it is always good to look at the output before doing a update. If this was a serious package that would cause widespread breakage, one would want to catch this. I've sort of read about llvm and clang and I seem to recall things like Firefox needing them or something. Even if it did break things, I don't think it would cause breakage to the point of rendering a system unbootable or anything. Still, I check the output of updates for this reason. If nothing else, I could have caught the tree in the middle of a change and missed some important bits. Thanks to all for the info. Dale :-) :-)
