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

2014-09-06 Thread Warner Losh
On Sep 6, 2014, at 5:32 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 06 Sep 2014, at 05:16, Warner Losh wrote: >> >> On Sep 5, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> >>> 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 fr

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

2014-09-06 Thread Warner Losh
On Sep 6, 2014, at 5:28 AM, David Chisnall wrote: > On 6 Sep 2014, at 06:47, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> 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 witho

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

2014-09-06 Thread David Chisnall
On 6 Sep 2014, at 06:47, Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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 exp

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

2014-09-06 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 06 Sep 2014, at 05:16, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Sep 5, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> >> 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

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

2014-09-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
> 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 __

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

2014-09-05 Thread Warner Losh
On Sep 5, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Garrett Cooper 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 > cross-compiler, one might nee

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

2014-09-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
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)