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LLVM's Clang C/C++ Compiler Is Still Having Problems With ~5% Of Debian Packages
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Why does the whole OS have to be compiled with one compiler? In Windows and MacOS, the dev of the app decides on the tools. Maybe I like the features of the Intel compiler.
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Probably some buggy, badly written 20 years old packages, just drop them
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Originally posted by bkor View Post
Actually just filing bugreports would already be helpful. Debian has an amazing amount of software, not every upstream is going to 100% at testing it with different compilers, etc.
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How is the linux kernel nowadays? There was some effort getting it to compile under clang, but apparently it died of.
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Originally posted by gigaplex View PostThe onus is really on the upstream projects, although if debian want to help out with submitting patches that's up to them.
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GCC is free software, so there is no problem for Debian packages to depend on it. But it is of course always better to allow a wide range of compilers to build your code.
Also calling ICC "C/C++ compliant" would be pushing it. ICC is known to take shortcuts by default, especially with floating point code (relaxed conformance or how they call it).
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Originally posted by Marc Driftmeyer View PostDebian should build clean with ICC, GCC, Clang and any other C/C++ compliant compiler. The onus is on Debian to rip out any GCC customizations.
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Debian should build clean with ICC, GCC, Clang and any other C/C++ compliant compiler. The onus is on Debian to rip out any GCC customizations.
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LLVM's Clang C/C++ Compiler Is Still Having Problems With ~5% Of Debian Packages
Phoronix: LLVM's Clang C/C++ Compiler Is Still Having Problems With ~5% Of Debian Packages
Debian developer and LLVM/Clang enthusiast Sylvestre Ledru has provided an update regarding the build results for trying to compile the Debian archive using this GCC compiler alternative...
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